A Ghanaian footballer, Kwame Bonsu, who plays in Sweden’s
second division has been sentenced by a Swedish court on Friday to two years in
prison for raping and beating his wife.
After serving his sentence, 22-year-old footballer, who
played for the Gefle IF club, will be expelled from the Scandinavian country
where he has lived in since 2013, the Gavle District Court said.
Gefle on Friday said Bonsu was dismissed from the team with
immediate effect. He will also have to pay 245,000 kronor (at least 25,000
euros, $28,000) in compensation to his wife, who is a Swedish national.
He first met her in 2014, when he was playing in the
southern Swedish city of Mjolby. They married the following year. A few months
after the wedding he signed a transfer to the town of Gavle, located about 300
kilometres (190 miles) away from Mjolby.
Bonsu’s wife had wanted him to stay to continue his studies.
The victim said the rape and beatings took place in the couple’s apartment
during an evening in November 2015 when he had refused to let her out.
Bonsu repeatedly denied the charges, but testimony from his
wife’s relatives led the court to believe the victim’s version of events.
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