The Tamale High Court presided by Justice Richard Kogyapwah has sentenced one Abdulai Rauf to 12 years’ imprisonment for rape.
A seven-member jury returned a guilty verdict and the court slapped the jail term on Rauf on Tuesday.
Six of his accomplices are currently at large.
The victim was gang-raped by the convict and six other suspects in Tamale in the Northern after an entertainment programme at Sawaba in Tamale in the night of October 27, last year.
The convict and his accomplices, who also attended the event, met the victim and Abdulai Rauf proposed love to her but she declined.
They told the victim that they knew her boyfriend and could send her to him.
The convict and his accomplices escorted the victim to the rear of a building to show her the supposed boyfriend but there was nobody there.
They subsequently pushed her into a tricycle and sped off the scene.
They transported the victim to an uncompleted building and forcibly had sex with her in turns.
Four out of the seven suspects run away after the sexual act, leaving the three including Abdul Rauf.
The victim pleaded with the rest of the suspects to give her directions since she did not know the area very well.
The relatives of the victim, who were looking for her, pounced on them and arrested Abdulai Rauf, but the other two were able to escape.
Abdul Rauf was conveyed to the police station, and the police later brought him to the crime scene to examine the place, but he failed to mention the names of his accomplices.
He was put before the Tamale High Court and accordingly convicted.
However, the relatives of the convict have vowed to trace and arrest his accomplices since their son cannot pay for the crime of others.
From Eric Kombat, Tamale