The Court of Appeal in Gavle, Sweden has set July 10 as the date for Ghanaian midfielder Kwame Bonsu's challenge of his marital rape and assault conviction.
Bonsu, 22, was handed a two-year jail term on Friday (June 9) after he was convicted of marital rape and abuse of his ex-wife Marie Magnusson by the Gavle District Court.
The incident which took place in 2015 cost the former Hearts of Lions player his professional contract with Swedish club Gefle IF. If his appeal is unsuccessful it will earn him a two-year stint in jail, a $14,000 fine as well as deportation from the Scandinavian country upon completion of his custodial sentence.
According to Goal.com, the former Hearts of Lions star has hired a new lawyer and will be armed with new video evidence when he appears before the Criminal Cases Review Commission of the Swedish Court of Appeal.
“There is no way my brother is guilty in this case. I know that Maria framed up every bit of the story to destroy Kwame Bonsu's name and career because my brother decided to divorce her after a misunderstanding,” Bonsu's elder sister Nana Yaw Boatemaa told Goal.com.
“When the story was announced in the media, my mother nearly lost her life through shock,” she said.
“Everyone who knows Bonsu is aware that he can't even hurt a fly, let alone a human whom he spent some time with in the past. Maria wanted to save her marriage but after my brother insisted that he cannot marry her anymore, she then framed him up to bring him down.
“I know a lot of Ghanaians have heard the sad news of my brother so we are calling on high ranking Ghanaians like the president, youth and sports minister as well as the football association to help in one way or the other,” she added.
Bonsu joined Swedish club FC Rosengard on loan from Heart of Lions in 2013 before he was signed permanently by second-tier side Mjallby in 2014.
Source: Daily Graphic
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What has her sister's picture got to do with the rape case? Should we call her sister of a ***barred word*** when we see her in town?
I lived in Sweden for some years and never married there.How come a 22 year old footballer whose main mission was to play football ended up going to marry in that country to put himself into this type of trouble?Was he going to play football to earn money and advance his career or going to marry so he can live in Sweden.Priorities are very important and this time he misplaced it.
don't mention the president into this because he has got better things to deal with. Now my only advice to you is to go in for a good lawyer and have your evidence and you will be fine. But God is watching from a distance and he knows the truth. If your brother your brother really beats and rape the woman, then what goes around will definitely comes around.