GRi in Court Ghana 26 -07 - 2000
Two remanded in custody for possessing fake dollars
Driver's mate receives 15 years for defilement
Tribunal remands farmer for murder
Two remanded in custody for possessing fake dollars
Accra
(Greater Accra) 26 July 2000
An Accra
Circuit Tribunal on Tuesday remanded in prison custody two traders, who
allegedly used fake 200-dollar note to pay for items and for possessing
additional fake 400 dollars.
Delle
Adeniram, 21, a Nigerian and Tonny Tetteh, alias Chico, 34, both traders,
pleaded not guilty to possessing forged notes. They will reappear on August 4.
The
tribunal chaired by Mrs. Elizabeth Anderson Yebuah ordered that an arrest warrant
be issued against an accomplice, Mumuni Amadu, 36, also a trader, who is on the
run. He is charged with abetment of crime.
Prosecution's
case was that the complainant, a trader, owns a boutique at Danquah Circle in
Accra.
On July 7,
Adeniran and Tetteh came to the shop and selected two pairs of shoes and four
shirts valued at 860,000 cedis. Adeniran paid the shop owner with 200 dollars.
The shop owner was suspicious of the texture of the notes and, therefore,
rushed to a nearby forex bureau, where they were detected to be fake.
According
to the prosecution, the accused persons were arrested and handed over to the
police and when they were searched, 400 dollars, which were found on Tetteh
were also fake.
The accused
persons led the police to Mamobi, where Amadu was identified as the one, who
sold the dollars to them.
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Driver's mate receives 15 years for defilement
Tepa
(Ashanti Region) 26 July 2000
A
19-year-old driver's mate, Maxwell Tumfour has been sentenced to 15 years'
imprisonment with hard labour by a circuit court at Tepa in the Ahafo-Ano North
District for defiling an eight year-old schoolgirl.
The court
presided over by Mr. Justice Henry A Kofie, also ordered Tumfour to pay two
million cedis as compensation to the victim.
He pleaded
guilty to the offence.
The
Prosecution told the court that Tumfour, who lives at Anyinasuso near Tepa, on
July 17, went to the Presbyterian nursery school where the victim is a pupil
and invited the victim, who was in the company of two other girls, sent her to
a nearby bush and defiled her.
The accused
took to his heels naked, when one Yaw Gyau caught him in the act. The
prosecution said Gyau raised the alarm and Tumfour was arrested. He confessed
defiling the victim.
The victim
was sent to the Tepa Government hospital for medical examination where it was
confirmed that the girl had been defiled.
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Tribunal remands farmer for murder
Sunyani
(Northern Region) 26 July 2000
A
Sunyani community tribunal on Monday remanded a middle-aged farmer, John Issa
Saah Nuru in custody on a provisional charge of murder. His plea was not taken
and he will re-appear on August 31.
Nuru
is on trail for allegedly killing another farmer George Dore at Takyikrom in
the Sunyani district.
Police
Seargent Lennox Aidoo prosecuting told the tribunal, presided over by Mr.
Charles Adjei Wilson that on July 14, this year, the accused called at the Chiraa
police station with a dead fowl and six eggs, which he accused the Dore of
stealing.
He
said Nuru reported that he hit Dore's head with a stick in his attempt to
arrest him for the offence.
But
shortly afterwards, a group of people from the village came to the station and
reported that the accused had inflicted a deep cutlass wound on Dore who was
lying in a pool of blood at the village.
Dore
was however found dead when the police got to the village. In his caution
statement, Nuru admitted slashing Dore with a cutlass because "he broke
into my coop and stole the fowl and eggs."
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