MAN,JAILED FIVE YEARS FOR STEALING

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A Kumasi circuit court has slapped a 5 years jail sentence on an electric welder for stealing four mobile phones at Santasi a suburb of Kumasi when his victims  were fast asleep.

The convict: Dennis Adu Adjei,32 was convicted on his own plea of guilty simpliciter to his charge of unlawful entry, causing unlawful damage and stealing, and was convicted accordingly.
Denis Adu Adjei, in an open court confessed to committing the crime and pleaded the trail judge to temper justice with mercy and be lenient in sentencing him.

The trail judge Her Honor Mary M.E Nsenkyire in sentencing the accused  took into consideration the fact that he is a first time offender, but the trail judge highlighted vehemently that the such evil deed are rampant with Kumasi metropolis and sentenced him to 5 years imprison.

However prosecution hold the fact that, on 14th February 2017, Police on a snap check point at Opoku Ware S.H.S Santasi, spotted the accused walking towards Santasi Round about. Due to his suspicious movement the police rushed and arrested him and a search  conducted on him led to the retrieval of four mobile phones.

During interrogation, the convict confessed having stolen the phones from a house on Santasi Aprie road.
He confessed in his caution statement that he stole the  phone by pass a stick, smeared with  glue through the sliding mirror of the victims window to steal the phones, when the victim was sleeping with his wife.
                                                                   Source: Stephen Cudjoe

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