{"id":86799,"date":"2015-01-29T16:08:28","date_gmt":"2015-01-29T16:08:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=86799"},"modified":"2015-01-30T14:09:51","modified_gmt":"2015-01-30T14:09:51","slug":"ex-convict-jailed-40-years-for-stealing-gh%e2%82%b5-120-other-items","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=86799","title":{"rendered":"Ex-convict jailed 40 years for stealing GH\u20b5 120"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"itemIntroText\">\n<p>A Tarkwa Circuit Court on Tuesday sentenced Bismark Owusu, a 24 year-old illegal miner to 40 years imprisonment in hard labour for robbing a taxi driver.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"itemFullText\">\n<p>[contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;vgJ8OSY840ju5oxLEmkjWqDDx4x9sZ4w&#8221;]He robbed his victim of GH\u20b5 120, a Techno mobile phone and car head tape valued GH\u20b5 400.<\/p>\n<p>The convict was discharged from the Tarkwa local prison last year.<\/p>\n<p>About two weeks ago, the convict attempted to rob another person and was arraigned but was discharged by Tarkwa District Court, because the complainant failed to show up.<\/p>\n<p>Passing sentence, the judge, Mr Justice Obeng Asante, said the convict must be isolated from the public for a long period.<\/p>\n<p>Prosecuting, Police Chief Inspector Oscar Amponsah told the court that the complainant, Kwadwo Sampong, is a taxi driver and the convict resides at Akoon a suburb of Tarkwa.<\/p>\n<p>He said at about 2040 hours on January 24, this year, Sampong was driving a taxi with registration number BA 1838-13 when he was hired by Owusu from Bogoso junction to Aboso.<\/p>\n<p>Chief Inspector Amponsah said on reaching a section of the road near Aboso , the convict pulled out a kitchen knife and ordered him to stop and surrender the money he had on him else he will kill him.<\/p>\n<p>He said the complainant refused to do so and the convict struggled with him and in the process, inflicted a deep cut on the right palm of Owusu, and freed himself and escaped leaving the vehicle behind.<\/p>\n<p>Chief Inspector Amponsah said Owusu then robbed the complainant of the money and other items.<\/p>\n<p>He said the complainant rushed to the Aboso- Tarkwa lorry station to board a vehicle back to Tarkwa to enable him report the incident to the police.<\/p>\n<p>Chief Inspector Amponsah said while the complainant was at the back seat of a taxi waiting for passengers, Owusu also boarded the same vehicle.<\/p>\n<p>He said the complainant kept quiet and when the taxi took off and they got to a police check point at Bogoso junction, he identified the convict to the police officer on duty and he was arrested with the complainant\u2019s belongings.<\/p>\n<p>Chief Inspector Amponsah said Owusu was handed over to the police and after investigation he was charged with the offence.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>Source: GNA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Tarkwa Circuit Court on Tuesday sentenced Bismark Owusu, a 24 year-old illegal miner to 40 years imprisonment in hard labour for robbing a taxi driver. [contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;vgJ8OSY840ju5oxLEmkjWqDDx4x9sZ4w&#8221;]He robbed his victim of GH\u20b5 120, a Techno mobile phone and car head tape valued GH\u20b5 400. The convict was discharged from the Tarkwa local prison last [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[38,17],"class_list":["post-86799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-palaver-newspaper","tag-wassa-akropong"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86799","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=86799"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86799\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=86799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=86799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=86799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}