The Ho Circuit Court docket, final Friday, sentenced three armed robbers to a complete of 19 years imprisonment.
Mercy Sokpe, 22, Atsu Kumasa, 25, and Godfred Dzidonu, 19, who have been charged on two counts of conspiracy to commit theft and theft.
They pleaded responsible to the fees, and the courtroom, presided by Mr Osman Abdul-Hakeem, sentenced the three to a few years every on the cost of conspiracy to commit theft.
Atsu Kamasa and Godfred Dzidonu have been moreover sentenced to 5 years every for theft.
Briefing journalists in Ho, Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) Felix Danku, mentioned the convicts robbed the complainant, Elijah Torgbedzi, 21, of his iphone six cell phone valued at GH¢700 on the Ho central market space.
DSP Danku famous that Mercy Sokpe approached the complainant and requested to make use of his (complainant) cellphone to take photos, and the complainant obliged.
He mentioned within the strategy of taking the photographs, Mercy Sokpe signaled the 2 accomplices, who attacked the complainant with scissors, and the three bolted with the cellphone.
DSP Danku additionally revealed that the complainant raised the alarm, and Dzidonu was arrested in professionalcession of the cellphone, and handed over to the police.
DSP Danku appealed to the general public to offer well timed and correct data to the police to allow them perform their duties of making certain regulation and order and defending lives and property.
FROM SAMUEL AGBEWODE, HO
