{"id":12981,"date":"2022-03-24T17:12:29","date_gmt":"2022-03-24T17:12:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/uncategorized\/court-fines-woman-for-assault"},"modified":"2022-03-24T18:26:27","modified_gmt":"2022-03-24T18:26:27","slug":"court-fines-woman-for-assault","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/court-fines-woman-for-assault","title":{"rendered":"Court fines woman for assault"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Gambia. <\/strong><\/span>Prosecutors alleged that the convict on or about the 25th August, 2021, at Senegambia, in the Kanifing Municipality of the Republic of The Gambia, assaulted one Aby Bajo all over her body, but the convict pleaded not guilty.<\/p>\n<p>In her judgement, the presiding magistrate stated that the issue to be determined was whether the complainant sustained the injuries as a result of a fight. She then referred to the definition of assault and harm.<\/p>\n<p>Her analysis of what was adduced was that it was correct that the complainant and the convict fought and the convict threw her down. She noted further that the convict and her witnesses asserted that if the complainant had not bleached her skin, she would not have sustained the said injuries.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis was what the accused and her witnesses wanted the court to believe. This position of the accused and her witnesses is not tenable, because the definition of both assault and harm does not qualify the type of skin that should or would sustain injuries,\u201d she told the court.<\/p>\n<p>She further posited that the court saw and noted the scars on the complainant, and held that the essential ingredient of the offence had been established beyond reasonable doubts against the accused person. \u201cTherefore the accused is convicted for assault causing bodily harm,\u201d she declared.<\/p>\n<p>The convict was asked whether she had anything to plead in mitigation but said that she did nothing and that they only fought. \u201cIs the convict a first-time offender?\u201d asked the magistrate.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes, according to our records,\u201d the prosecuting officer said. He then applied under Section 145 of the CPC for compensation to be awarded to the victim for injuries inflicted on her.<\/p>\n<p>In passing the sentence, the magistrate stated that the convict was not remorseful. She noted that looking at the scars on the victim, she must have undergone so much pain. She subsequently sentenced the convict accordingly.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe convict is ordered to compensate the victim with the sum of D10,000 in default to serve two years imprisonment,\u201d she announced and adjourned the court.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\">Gambia<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Gambia. Prosecutors alleged that the convict on or about the 25th August, 2021, at Senegambia, in the Kanifing Municipality of the Republic of The Gambia, assaulted one Aby Bajo all over her body, but the convict pleaded not guilty. In her judgement, the presiding magistrate stated that the issue to be determined was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":12980,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3,8],"tags":[2355,2361,5475,2471,260],"class_list":["post-12981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-community","category-homepage-english","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-gambia","tag-assault","tag-court","tag-gambia"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Court fines woman for assault - Gambia<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Prosecutors alleged that the convict on or about the 25th August, 2021, at Senegambia, in the Kanifing Municipality of t ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/court-fines-woman-for-assault\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Court fines woman for assault\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Prosecutors alleged that the convict on or about the 25th August, 2021, at Senegambia, in the Kanifing Municipality of t ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/court-fines-woman-for-assault\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Gambia\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2022-03-24T17:12:29+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2022-03-24T18:26:27+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/gambia\/sites\/19\/2022\/03\/img-623cb7a47bd0f.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"657\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"485\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/court-fines-woman-for-assault#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/court-fines-woman-for-assault\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Court fines woman for assault\",\"datePublished\":\"2022-03-24T17:12:29+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2022-03-24T18:26:27+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/court-fines-woman-for-assault\"},\"wordCount\":359,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/court-fines-woman-for-assault#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/gambia\/sites\/19\/2022\/03\/img-623cb7a47bd0f.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Gambia\",\"assault\",\"Court\",\"Gambia\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"community\",\"homepage-english\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/court-fines-woman-for-assault#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/court-fines-woman-for-assault\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/court-fines-woman-for-assault\",\"name\":\"Court fines woman for assault - 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