The Agona Swedru District Magistrate Court, presided over by Mr Kwaku Baah Frempong, has remanded a cobbler, Richard Kwaku Nimo, in prison custody for attempting to take his own life by hanging.
Nimo pleaded not guilty to the charge of attempted suicide but the judge remanded him in prison custody for a fortnight.
Police Sergeant Maxwell Boadu informed the court that the complainant, one Kwabena Dumor, was a farmer residing in Nsususaaso, a suburb of Agona Swedru, whereas Nimo was a native of Ashanti Akyem Breku and lived at Kasoa.
The prosecutor stated that at about 10am, Dumor went to his farm at Wawase Komawora to harvest his maize only to find a green rope tied to a branch of one of his orange trees.
The prosecutor said it was when Dumor drew closer to the tree that he saw Nimo sitting under it with an old bedsheet, a plastic bottle containing an alcoholic drink, two sticks of cigarette in a packet, a pen and a suicide note written in Akan by him.
Sgt Boadu added that: �since Nimo seemed intoxicated, Dumor suspected that he was attempting to commit suicide, and when he confronted the accused with the question as to what he (Nimo) was up to, he confirmed Dumor�s suspicion.
According to Sgt Boadu, the complainant got one Samuel Hayford to assist him to apprehend Nimo and they escorted him to the police station.
Nimo was said to have stated in his caution statement to the police that he had consulted a Mallam at Agona Swedru to help him stop drinking but the problem rather got worse after he applied the soap given to him by the Mallam; considering self-destruction as a result.
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