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Two robbers jailed 40yrs
The Kumasi High Court, presided over by Justice Francis Obiri, has sentenced two robbers to 40 years imprisonment with hard labour for robbing three households at Achiase-Fawode near Mampong in 2014.
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Godfred Yeboah, an apprentice mason and Augustine Obeng, a cobbler, pleaded not guilty to the two counts of conspiracy to commit crime and robbery.
They were, however, found guilty by the court and sentenced to 40 years on each count. The sentences are to run concurrently.
Three other accomplices only known as Baffa, Tupac and Emma are, however, on the run.
Presenting the facts of the case, Assistant State Attorney, Mr Emmanuel Otu Boison, told the court that on Saturday, March 29, 2014, the convicts went to Asuofua and planned together with their accomplices now at large, to embark on a robbery at Mamponteng.
On March 31, 2014, he said, Yeboah took delivery of three pump action guns, a pistol and other tools, concealed them in a suit case from the three now at large and brought them to Mamponteng to be used for the robbery.
The two, together with their accomplices on April 1, 2014 attacked three houses at Achiase, near Mamponteng and robbed the occupants of their cash, laptops, iPad, mobile phones and other properties worth thousands of cedis.
On April 3, 2014, the police acting upon a tip off, arrested the convicts and a search conducted in their rooms revealed two laptops, one iPad, one mobile phone and a pen drive and Multi TV decoder, which were all identified by the victims of the robbery attacks on April 1, to be theirs.
The convicts were referred to the Regional Criminal Investigations Department (CID) of the Ghana Police Service where they were charged with the offences.
