ACollins Agyekum-Gyasi, Kumasi
A Kumasi Circuit Court sentenced an Anwomaso-based fitter, Atta Bobbie, to a 24-month jail term when he appeared before the court presided by Justice Emmanuel Amo-Yartey on charges of unlawful entry and stealing GH¢ 900.00 at Anwomaso, a suburb of Kumasi.
Briefing the court on the case, Chief Inspector Rejoice Sumatu said the accused lived in the same town with a nephew to the complainant, who is a driver.
On November 27, this year the complainant was in the house of a friend, one Mr Darko when Atta paid them a visit. Whilst there, he told his friend that he had left an amount of GH¢900.00 in his room and so Darko should lock the doors when he was ready to leave. This instruction was head by the accused person.
Chief Inspector Sumatu stated that a few minutes after Darko left, Bobbie said goodbye and sneaked out to his uncle’s residence from where he scaled the wall into the yard.
“The accused checked out the yard of the house, found a ladder which helped him climb to the ceiling and finally entered the room where the money was kept. He then pocketed it and left the town,” the prosecutor stated.
The prosecutor said the complainant returned to the house a day after only to realise that the money was not there and immediately confronted his friend, Darko, but he denied any knowledge of the missing money.
From his friend’s house, the complainant suspected it could be his nephew who had stolen the money so he lodged a complaint with the police at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST).
On December 4, 2010, the complainant rushed to the police and said he had had information that Bobbie was at a funeral at Onwe-Ejisu and with their assistance, the latter was arrested.
In his cautioned statement, he denied committing the offence but later changed his mind and admitted the offence. The money has since been refunded to the complainant.
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