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A Kade District Magistrate’s Court on Tuesday ordered a 26-year-old farmer, Kwaku Isaac to see a psychiatrist for observation after he had attempted to commit suicide.Police Inspector Francis Borkor, prosecuting, told the court, presided over by Mr Abdul Majid Iliasu that Isaac would have committed suicide but for the timely intervention of his wife.He said Isaac tied a sponge to the ceiling joint of his room and tried to use it commit suicide on August 3 at Akatanyensua.Prosecution said as the knot firmly tightened the sponge around his neck, the wife heard the husband groaning for pain and she quickly used a cutlass to cut the sponge to free her husband.Inspector Borkor said on that fateful day the wife was asleep with her two children, when the husband made the attempt to take his life.The incident was reported to the chief of the village who sent her to the police to lodge a complaint.The accused later told the police that he wanted to kill himself because he was fed up with life.When he was arraigned before the court he pleaded guilty and said he was not aware that he wanted to kill himself.When the magistrate asked him if he felt any pain during the act he replied in the negative.When asked if he drank alcohol or smoked wee or used any other drug, he said he did not.Mr Iliasu asked him if he knew why the wife cut the sponge to save his life but he said he did not know why.The magistrate told him that the wife did so because she valued his life.The magistrate then ordered that he should be sent to a psychiatrist hospital for observation and adjourned the case to September 3.Source: GNA
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