A 28-year-old private security man, Alhassan Abdul Rahuf has been sentenced to a total of 22 years in prison, after having found guilty of stabbing a resident of an apartment he was guarding.
Rahuf broke into residence of the victim, changed into the latter’s husband’s clothes before stabbing her twice in the abdomen while she was dressing up.
The victim was compelled by the incident to run out naked in search of help.
Based on these offences, Rahuf was found guilty on the count of unlawful entry and causing harm.
The court presided over by His Honour Isaac Addo sentenced the accused yesterday to 15 years for unlawful entry and seven years for causing. However, the convict would serve 15 years imprisonment because the counts will run concurrently.
The facts of the case as presented by the prosecuting officer Chief Inspector Jonas Lawer were that Rita Owusu, facility manager of Arabella Residence located at Cantonments, the complainant.
He added that the victim (name withheld) is a businesswoman and a resident of Arabella residence whilst convict was a security guard with Protea Coin Security Company, which provides security services for the Arabella residence.
Nevertheless, on April 28, 2023, at about 7:10am, the convict who was on guard duty at above mentioned residence sort permission from his supervisor to use the washroom but failed to return back to post.
Meanwhile, C/Insp Lawyer said the convict after using the washroom went to the apartment of the victim and entered it through the children’s playroom window.
Accused changed himself into the victim’s husband’s clothes and left his uniform and boots in a polythene bag in the victim children’s playroom and hid himself.
On the next day, April 29 ay about 1:30pm, the victim was dressing up when all of a sudden the convict appeared on her naked at the bedroom.
The victim shouted for help but the convict rushed into the kitchen, picked a knife and a meat fork, and stabbed her twice in the abdomen with the meat fork.
The victim started bleeding profusely, and therefore, rushed out of the room naked.
The convict on the other hand, also rushed out and cut one of the electric fence wires and scaled over the wall to escape.
The victim was rushed the police hospital for treatment by a neighbour and still on admission.
Intelligence led to the arrest of the convict at a nearby construction site.
He admitted the offence in his cautioned statement and led police to retrieve his security uniform kept in the victim’s room.
C/Ins Lawer told the court that after investigations the convict was charged with the offences.
