Ghanaian Footballer John Paintsil Granted Bail, As Wife Denies Stabbing Allegation

Ghana defender John Pantsil has been released by the Ghanaian police on bail on Friday evening after been accused stabbing the wife.

There has been an allegation of domestic violence levied against that he fought with his wife, Richlove Paintsil  and stabbed her in the upper lid of her eye.

Ironically, Richlove who was the key actor in the whole Domestic Violence allegation, told police she wants their differences to be settled at home and did not level any charges against the player.

According to her:

'There was no stabbing whatsoever during the incident and no one was unconscious because of the incident.

'I am pleading with the press to be circumspect with their reportage as we have already seen some reports which are wide off the mark.'

It was only a domestic quarrel.

The 31-year-old footballer is a member of the Ghana team that finished fourth at the recently concluded  AFCON in South Africa.

According to Accra police spokesman Freeman Tettey

'The information available to us is that he stabbed his wife in the upper eyelid, so we had to quickly rescue the wife and send her to hospital,' 

'For now, he is in our custody and we are in the investigation process.'

'The wife scaled a wall to a neighbour’s house for protection and immediately, John Paintsil also pursued her, came to the neighbour’s house, gave him some slaps and threatened to shoot him.

'That scared the gentleman who rushed to the police to lodge a complaint.'