GRi in Court Ghana 27 - 09 - 2000
Cape
Vars student on bail for defilement
Supreme Court thief sentenced
Accra (Greater Accra) 27 September 2000
Kwabena Mensah, the 50 year-old farmer who
burgled the Supreme Court was on Tuesday sentenced to six years' imprisonment
with hard labour.
Mensah, together with three accomplices on the
run, broke into the offices of the court and stole a calculator and two million
cedis cash
The accused, who pleaded guilty to conspiracy
to steal, would serve a five-year probation after his release from jail. Two
other charges against him, possessing instruments intended for unlawful entry
and stealing, were dropped for lack of prosecution.
The tribunal chaired by Moru Ziblim ordered
that the jerk used in the theft should be confiscated and handed over to the
police. He however, ordered that the accused person's bathroom slippers and
sunglasses found at the scene of theft should be released to him, "because
he will need them in jail".
The tribunal issued a bench warrant for the
arrest of Abu Mohammed and the other accomplices.
Prosecuting, Inspector Emmanuel Boison said
following frequent thefts at the Supreme Court and its surroundings, security
men were detailed to mount surveillance.
He said in the early hours of September 22,
Mensah and three accomplices entered the premises of the court and used a jerk
to force open an iron bar fixed to one of the windows of the finance office.
Inspector Boison said they ransacked cabinets
and drawers and stole a calculator valued at 100,000 cedis and two million
cedis cash.
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Cape Vars student on bail for defilement
Cape Coast (Central Region) 27
September 2000
Malik Afful, a third year student
of the University of Cape Coast who allegedly defiled a 12 year old JSS
student, was on Tuesday granted ten million cedis bail with two sureties to be
justified, by a circuit court at Cape Coast.
Malik pleaded not guilty.
In the dock with him was Issah
Musah, who is awaiting sentence after pleading guilty to defiling the same girl
when the two were arraigned before the court on Monday.
Giving evidence in camera, earlier,
the victim corroborated the case for the prosecution that Musah and Afful had
both defiled her on the night of September 11, this year, at Abura, a suburb of
Cape Coast, when she was sent to take some clothes to a tailor for mending.
The victim told the court presided
over by Mr. Tom Bentil that Musah first sexually abused her in his room and
Afful later took her to an uncompleted structure at a new market under
construction in the same vicinity and also defiled her.
The girl who was being cross-examined
by Mr. Kwabena Owusu, counsel for Afful, denied that she failed to scream out
for help during the time of the incident, because she already knew Musah who
was her boyfriend.
According to her, she could not cry
out, because Musah had covered her mouth with his hands to prevent her from
doing so.
Further hearing of the case
continues on Wednesday.
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