THE JUABEN Circuit Court in the Ashanti Region has sentenced a 19-year-old tailor, who was arraigned for robbing a man of his personal belongings to 17 years’ imprisonment with hard labour.
The court, presided by Rosemarie Afua Asante, sentenced Emmanuel Agyei, alias Nana Agyei James, on his own plea of guilty to a charge of robbery, contrary to Section 149 of the Criminal Offences Act 29/60.
Presenting the facts of the case to the court, Chief Inspector Jessie Ashangmor, the prosecutor, said the convict mugged Michael Amoani, who is the complainant in the case, and dispossessed him of his Samsung A22 mobile phone, one iPod and ear piece, two Techno key pad phones and a cash sum of GHȼ315.00.
He told the court that the items the convict forcibly took from the victim on March 3 this year, at about 2:15am in Serwaakura near Ejisu were valued at GHȼ2,665.
Emmanuel Agyei sold all the items to someone in Ejisu at the reduced price of GHȼ370.
According to the prosecutor, prior to the arrest of Emmanuel Agyei, there had been series of robbery incidents along the Serwaakura and Asamang road.
The prosecutor said on that fateful day, the victim was walking home and on reaching a section of the road, he saw the convict loitering around an area called Ten Point Drinking Spot.
Suddenly, he attacked him with an object and forcibly snatched the complainant’s bag containing the aforementioned items and took to his heels.
When the victim raised an alarm about the attack, he received a call a few hours later from Dorothy Serwaa, who happened to be the convict’s mother, that she had found his bag behind her backyard.
Michael Amoani swiftly went to the accused person mother’s house and identified the bag as his, but his items were nowhere to be found.
He, thereafter, lodged a complaint with the Ejisu Police, leading to arrest of the convict at his hideout in Abenase, a contiguous community.
From David Afum, Kumasi