Baba Alhassan, 18 and Edward Dixon, 20 were each fined GH¢600 and were convicted on their own plea of guilty.

They would each serve two months imprisonment in hard labour in default.

However the third accused, Husseni Osman, an 18-year-old plumber, who was serving a jail term on a similar offence was sentenced to eight months imprisonment in hard labour also on his own plea of guilt.

Prosecuting, Police Sergeant, Comfort Akorfa Banini, told the court presided over by Mrs Rita Amoayiwaa Edusa that the complainant, Mr Osei Akoto is an electrician and a resident of Ayioayiko in Cape Coast.

She said on Wednesday June 28, 2017 at about 0100 hours, the convicts were coming from a drinking bar at Tantri in the Cape Coast Metropolis.

The prosecution said on reaching the complainant’s shop at Ayikoayiko, they entered the shop using a duplicate key and stole seven car batteries valued at GH¢3,500.00 belonging to clients of Akoto.

Mr Akoto reported the theft to the Kotokuraba Police where the convicts were arrested based on intelligence gathered by the Police.

Sergeant Banini said the convicts confessed their involvement in the crime during investigations and led Police to retrieve the stolen items.

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Source: GNA

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Richard Opoku Adjei, who was on the 9th of May 2017 sentenced to 10 years imprisonment for robbery, was in police cells awaiting a transfer warrant to prison.

The Prosecuting Officer, Chief Inspector Yaya Salifu told the court presided over by Mr. Gabriel Mate-Teye, that the accused opened the T&J ceiling in the cell and crawled through to the corridor where he forced about 8 pieces of the plastic ceiling to fall.

He said Adjei, who was without a lawyer, was apprehended and brought to court charged for causing damage to government property and escaping from lawful custody.

The accused person pleaded guilty for causing damage to the court property but did not plead guilty for escaping from lawful custody.

Adjei told the court that, “I was broken hearted for the 10-year-jail term slammed on me for robbery and was looking for bare wire in the ceiling to commit suicide.”

The trial judge Mr. Gabriel Mate-Teye adjourned the case to June 15th 2017 for his verdict on the count of escaping from lawful custody.

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Source: GNA

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