An Iyaganku Magistrates’ Court Ibadan, Oyo State, on Tuesday sentenced a 30-year-old man, Olatunde Busayo, to six-month imprisonment for cutting another with a cutlass over food.

Busayo was charged with assault.

He had pleaded guilty to the charge.

The Magistrate, Olasinmibo Sanusi-Zubair, consequently, found him guilty as charged and sentenced him to a term of six months imprisonment without an option of fine.

The prosecutor, Inspector Olagoke Adegbenro, told the court that Busayo, an ex convict, committed the offence on December 7, at about 11.00 a.m. at Olunloyo Estate, New GRA, Ibadan.

Adegbenro said that the convict used a cutlass to inflict injury on the neck of one Mr Patrick Isaiah, a security guard who stays in the same neighborhood with the convict.

He explained that the convict had cut Isaiah because he failed to give him food when a ceremony was held in his compound.

According to the prosecutor, Busayo ran after Isaiah on the street after the ceremony, and hit a cutlass on his neck.

He said that the offence contravenes the provisions of section 355 of the Criminal Law of Oyo State, 2000.

(NAN)