The Asamankese Circuit Court in the Eastern Region has sentenced a 20-year-old motorbike rider to 15 years imprisonment for robbery and also assaulting his victim.
Emmanuel Afanu, will serve his sentence in hard labour.
The offence is contrary to section149 of the criminal offenses Act1960(Act 29).
Posecutor, Inspector Samuel Owusu, presenting the facts to the court said the accused, together with his friend who is at large, on April, 8, conspired to commit crime, to wit, attempted robbery and robbery.
According to the Prosecution, the accused robbed his victim of an iPhone 7 plus mobile phone valued at Ghs2,500 after he assaulted Sakyi Michael, the complainant, with a pair of scissors at Yayo a suburb of Asamankese, the Municipal capital of Lower West Akim.
The Prosecutor, further narrated that the complainant, a student, lives at Anum-Asamankese while the accused and his accomplice live at Mepom.
He said the complainant was on his way home on that fateful day at around 7: 50 pm when the convicts who were riding motorbike snatched his phone.
In the process, the complainant managed to hold Emmanuel Afanu`s shirt and struggled with him but he inflicted the pair of scissors on him and succeeded in bolting with the mobile phone.
The prosecutor added that Emmanuel Afanu was, however, arrested and sent to the Asamankese Police station by some residents after the complainant screamed for help.
The convict was charged and arraigned after the police conducted a thorough investigations.
– BY Daniel Bampoe