[ 2017-04-28 ]

Kwame pleaded not guilty, but after trial, was found guilty by the court

Man jailed 15 years for robbing KNUST students
An Accra Circuit Court on Thursday handed a
15-year jail sentence to one Kwame Asong, for
robbing two persons of their three mobile phones,
backpack, one purse and an amount of GHc250.00.

Kwame pleaded not guilty, but after trial, was
found guilty by the court presided over by Mr
Aboagye Tandoh.

He is to serve 15 years in prison with hard labour
to serve as a deterrent to other young people who
have resorted to cheap means of acquiring wealth.
In sentencing, the court said it took into
consideration the convict’s plea for mitigation,
the period spent in custody.

Earlier, the prosecution, Chief Superintendent of
Police, Duuti Tuaruka, told the court that the
complainants in the case were students of the
Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology
(KNUST), but reside at Kasoa ,while Kwame is a
fisherman who resides at Oshiyie, near Kokrobite
in Accra.

He said on July 10, 2016, the two students visited
the Oshiyie beach to have fun and while on their
way back home, Kwame and two others attacked them.
“Armed with a beer bottle, they subjected the
students to severe beatings and robbed them of
their items and bolted,’’ he said.

The prosecution said they robbed them of two
mobile phones worth GH¢400, one backpack worth
GH¢25 and GH¢250 cash.

Chief Superintendent Tuaruka said the complainants
raised an alarm and with the help of others at the
beach, the convict was apprehended after a chase,
but his accomplices managed to escape.

He was handed over to the police and during
investigations; the three mobile phones and the
purse were retrieved.

Source - citifmonline.com

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