Agbozume (V/R), May 10, GNA - Twin brothers who allegedly assaulted their septuagenarian father for not allowing them to take roofing sheets off his building to fix their damaged building have appeared put before an Agbozume Magistrates Court charged with assault and causing harm. Atsu and Etse Atsideka, both 29, pleaded not guilty and were each granted bail in the sum of five million cedis with one surety. Their father, Amedome Atsideka, was also charged for causing harm by slashing the forearms of his sons with a cutlass during the assault on him.

He pleaded guilty but the presiding judge, Group Captain Martin Obeng-Ntim (rtd), returned a plea of not guilty for him. Amedome explained to the court that he had to use the cutlass to free himself from his sons who confessed to the crowded court that they smoked Indian hemp.

The old man was also granted bail in the sum of five million cedis with one surety.

Inspector Francis Agbafe of Anlo-Afiadenyigba Police post told the court that the two brothers lived at Atiteti, near Afiadenyigba on the same compound with their father and had the habit of harassing him and beating him sometimes.

He said in the evening of February 25, this year, the brothers had the roof of their building ripped off in a storm. Inspector Agbafe said the twins approached their father and demanded that he allowed them to remove roofing sheets over his building to fix their damaged roof.

He said the old man refused and this did not go down with the brothers, who in an apparent show of dissatisfaction beat him up. The court heard that during the assault on their father, Etse spew out smoke believed to be of marijuana on the face of their father. Inspector Agbafe said during the assault on him, the old man reached for a cutlass and slashed the forearms of the two brothers in order to free himself.

The old man showed to the court lacerations at his back, which he said, were marks of the beatings he received from his sons. The two brothers also had bandage on their arms when they appeared in court.