A prosecutor’s alleged misrepresentation of an accident has led to the imprisonment of a driver.
The inaccurate report indicted the driver, Charles Tetteh for knocking down a 65-year-old woman to death.
The driver, contrarily, claimed that ‘from nowhere the woman hit my car and fell down’.
According to Mr. Tetteh, he rushed the woman to the hospital but she was pronounced dead on arrival.
He said he then had to report himself to the police. That was where the inmate caught himself up in the nets of the law.
He said he was locked up in a police cell for three days and was later released.
Mr. Tetteh said when he was finally arraigned before court after many postponements, he was charged with speeding, which was not what he had reported to the police.
“The police wrote in the statement that I killed the woman because I was overspeeding,” he recounted.
The inmate said after the statement was read to the court, he was not allowed to speak despite raising his hand in objection to the charge.
Mr. Tetteh did not have representation in court.
Without his side of the story, the court found him guilty and sentenced him to two years imprisonment at the Winneba Local Prison in the Central Region.
“When I raised my hand to speak, the judge asked me to put it down,” he said.
Crime Check Foundation (CCF) met Charles Tetteh at the Winneba Local Prison when it visited the facility.
Mr. Tetteh told the CCF team that though his sentencing devastated him, he took it in good faith.
Crime Check Foundation screens confessions of prison inmates and the consequences they face to caution those intending to commit crimes.
