[ 2017-04-06 ]

He was interdicted and was subsequently found guilty of the offence by a High court

Supreme Court frees police officer jailed 15-yrs for ‘robbery’
The Supreme Court has acquitted and discharged a
former police officer, Tetteh Samadzi, who
sentenced to fifteen years imprisonment for
robbery. The five panel of justices presided over
by Justice Jones Dotse, deferred the reasons for
their decision. Constable Tetteh Samadzi was
arrested together with one Foster on Friday March
6, 2009, for a robbery incident at Pokuase in the
Greater Accra Region.

He was interdicted and was subsequently found
guilty of the offence by a High court which
sentenced him to a prison term of fifteen years.
Lawyers for the former police officer appealed the
case but did not succeed, before they proceeded to
the Supreme court for redress.

The constable, allegedly chauffeured the gang of
robbers in a Volkswagen Golf with registration
number GT 2472 R, and told irate youth who were
then searching for the robbers that he was called
by Foster to help in the search for the criminals.
According to one of the robbery victims, Samadzi
was part of a gang of four men who came to his
house at about 1:00am on Independence Day and
robbed him of GH¢250, two mobile phones and a DVD
player.

He said his door was forcibly opened with concrete
blocks and shots from sophisticated weapons were
fired indiscriminately during the robbery, holding
everyone spellbound. He was also beaten to pulp by
the robbers, he noted. Also, at about 3:00am that
same day, the gang robbed one Evans Boakye, a
newspaper vendor at the same location, and bolted
with three phones and an amount of GH¢150.

At the time of their arrest, an AK47 rifle, a
pistol, as well as live and spent cartridges were
found in the car which had a police sticker on the
windscreen.

Source - citifmonline.com

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