The well-known case of the hunter who thought he was seeing a rabbit in Timtimhwe, a village in the Western Region along the Tarkwa-Bogoso Highway, has been resolved.
The Tarkwa Circuit court, chaired by Mrs. Hathia Ama Manu, rendered a final ruling in which it was decided that 55-year-old hunter Isaac Donkor will serve three years in prison and pay GH¢600 in fines for shooting and murdering another hunter, 37-year-old Aziz Abukbil.
Isaac Donkor was accused of killing someone, carelessly injuring someone, and illegally carrying a firearm. After reporting himself to the police after the shooting event, he entered a guilty plea on both counts.
He claims that Donkor, who went hunting at around 3 p.m., saw an animal that resembled an Odompo rat. When he tried to pick it up after shooting it, he discovered that it was actually a human being. He fled from astonishment and terror and then told the police about himself.
The case’s prosecutor, Superintendent Juliana Essel-Dadzie, stated that Osman Awuni, the complainant, is a farmer and the brother of Aziz Abukbil, 37, who passed away after being shot while hunting.
Abukbil reportedly went on a hunting trip in a bush outside of Timtimhwe but never came back, according to Sup. Essel Dadzie.
The prosecution claimed that after the community’s youth, elders, and relatives went on a hunt for the hunter the following day, they discovered Abukbil dead in the bush in Timtimhwe, his arms and face shot.
After receiving a report from a search team, the police at Bogoso were sent to the area, where they examined the body before transporting it to the mortuary for preservation and autopsy.
