When a newsman walked into a money exchange/internet café shop on Tuesday to transact business nothing would have suggested that he would be violently attacked that same day on grounds of being accused of theft over an hour after he had left the premises.
African Voice news Editor, Peter Olorunnisomo, had attempted transacting a money transfer through the RIA agent in shop 20 of the Woolwich Arsenal bus stop opposite the high rise building housing Sainsbury’s.
According to him, he gave his name to the agent who searched online for his account long used. Not finding it, the agent asked for his mobile number to do a second round of search, which he obliged. This was also not fruitful. The agent’s customer attention was variously divided before he got a call which he went out of the shop to attend to. Peter came to the conclusion of not having an account and he left to try elsewhere.
After over an hour, he got a call alleging he was responsible for the theft of a wallet at the shop which contained over £500 among other items. He returned to the shop to prove his innocence and explain his movements with proofs.
But the young man whose alias is Sammy Kingsman would not hear anything and went berserk attacking him in full glare of the wife of the shop owner and a child and an adult customer who fled the scene upon seeing the violent attack.
Peter’s proof of receipts and his wallet was seized from him temporarily and after having gone through them returned Peter’s wallet but the assault continued until the police that Peter called came to save him. The police had pointed, in cautioning him, that Peter would not have returned to the shop if he had taken the wallet.
Not done with the police intervention and caution handed to him and the shop owner who was challenged on divulging Peter’s details, Sammy Kingsman left a recorded message threatening more grievous and profound bodily harm to him and his family whom he said he has identified if his wallet was not returned within seven days.
The matter is up at the Police station.
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