Ejisu (Ash), March 5, GNA - A worker of the Juaben Oil Mills Limited at Juaben near Ejisu, who bit the lip of a farmer he suspected of having an affair with his wife, was on Wednesday fined 400,000 cedis by a magistrate's court at Ejisu for assault.

Opoku Bediako, 36, pleaded guilty to the charge and was in addition ordered by the court to pay a compensation of 500,000 cedis to the victim or serve a one-year prison term in default.

Police Inspector E.O. Tano told the court that the complainant, Yaw Boateng, farmer, had been supplying tomatoes to the accused person's wife who sold cooked rice.

He said at about 4 pm on February 3, this year, the accused returned from work and went to the spot where his wife sold the rice and saw a basket of tomatoes.

Inspector Tano said the accused demanded to know where she got the tomatoes from but the wife refused to tell him and instead his little daughter told him that it was Boateng who brought the tomatoes to her mother.

Based upon the information from his daughter, Bediako suspected that his wife was involved in a relationship with Boateng, the prosecution said.

The next day the accused again went to the spot where the wife sold the rice and saw the complainant sitting beside his wife eating rice. He said Bediako warned Boateng not to bring tomatoes to his wife again and that he (complainant) came to his wife always to eat rice free, while he bought the rice whenever he wanted to eat.

Inspector Tano said the accused flew into a rage when his wife told him that the complainant always bought the rice and attacked Boateng, biting his lip in the process.