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The popular case involving a hunter who mistook his fellow hunter for a rabbit at Timtimhwe, a community along the Tarkwa-Bogoso Highway, in the Western Region has come to an end.
In its final judgment, the Tarkwa Circuit court, presided over by Mrs Hathia Ama Manu ruled that Isaac Donkor, the 55-year-old hunter should spend 3 years in jail and pay a fine of GH¢600 for shooting and killing Aziz Abukbil, 37, also a hunter.
Isaac Donkor was charged with murder and negligently causing harm and possessing fire arm without authority. He pleaded guilty on both counts after he reported himself to the police following the shooting incident.
According to him Donkor who went hunting at about 3pm and in the process he sighted an animal in the form of a rat (Odompo). He shot it and when he went to pick it up saw it was rather a human being he shot. He run out of shock and fear and later reported himself to the police.
Superintendent Juliana Essel-Dadzie who prosecuted the case, said that the complainant, Osman Awuni, is a farmer and brother to Aziz Abukbil, 37, now deceased after he was shot during hunting.
Sup Essel Dadzie said Abukbil went on a hunting expedition in a bush on the outskirts of Timtimhwe, but never returned.
The prosecution said the next day, when the family, elders and youth of the community mounted a search for the hunter, they found Abukbil dead in the bush at Timtimhwe with gunshot wounds on his face and arms.
A search party reported the incident to the police at Bogoso., Officers were dispatched to the scene, inspected the body and conveyed it to the mortuary for preservation and autopsy.
The court heard that while investigation was ongoing, Donkor reported himself to the police at Bogoso, confessing that he killed Abukbil with his unregistered CBC single barrel shotgun during a hunting expedition.