Mother of 2 children waiting for a false kidnapping call

General News on Wednesday, February 13, 2019

Source: Graphic.com.gh

2019-02-13

The Takoradi Court of First Instance detained Lucy Awortwi, a mother of two who had telephoned to falsely claim that her two children had been kidnapped.

Lucy, who was on bail on investigation, was arrested on Tuesday and tried in court accused of lying to a public officer. She will return to court on February 14, Valentine's Day.

Her false declaration of abduction sent the Takoradi police hunting wild goose when it later became apparent that the wanted "kidnapper" was her ex-husband who had been blessed to travel with the children.

Police said that Lucy, under the age of 20, admitted to having asked police to arrest her ex-husband in order to teach her a lesson by taking advantage of her ex-husband's request. send their two children to visit their grandmother in Beposo, Shama. District.

Police said Lucy called the police hotline to complain about the kidnapping of her two children. And with the increase in kidnapping information in the country, especially in Sekondi-Takoradi, the police quickly deployed staff to the place indicated by Lucy, to realize that she Had misled her with a premeditated ploy to put her ex-husband in trouble.

The student GSTS

In the same vein, the 18-year-old high school student from Ghana who allegedly conspired with friends to claim a ransom of 9,000 GH ¢ from his parents under the pretext of the kidnapping court Wednesday.

De-Vreeze Quaynoo would have simulated his kidnapping with clbadmates.

The police said they were pursuing his accomplices whose names were Anthony Osei-Prempeh, Elijah Sam, a Daniel and Evelyn.

According to the Metropolitan Police Crime Officer, Superintendent Alhaji Musah Hussein Awinaba, Daniel and De-Vreeze have purchased and registered a new SIM card so they can make calls for this mishap that extorts them from the money.

SIM card

He added that Daniel had received the SIM card to call De-Vreeze's parents and those living in Sefwi Wiawso, claiming that De-Vreeze had been kidnapped and that the badailants were demanding a ransom of 9,000 GH ¢.

Daily Graphic Briefing, he said at 9:20 pm Last Wednesday, Mr. Bernard Adu Ampako, head of household at GSTS, informed the police that Mr. Quaynoo had left the premises of the school around 15 hours. and subsequently reported to have been abducted by an unknown interlocutor.

The hostess explained that the deputy prefect, who was using De-vreeze's phone, had received a strange call that De-vreeze had been kidnapped and for whom a ransom of 9,000 GH ¢ was required.

Intelligence

He added that the investigators were immediately sent to gather information, stating that the victim was with some of his friends in a house located around Takoradi High School (TADISCO).

Alhaji Awinaba said that when the team arrived at the scene, she found De-vreeze's uniform in the house and asked how this uniform had reached its destination.

The landlord, he said, told the police that De-vreeze and the other alleged accomplices, namely Osei-Prempeh, Daniel and Evelyn, had visited his son, Elijah Sam, the night before and that They had stayed up until 22 hours. when she asked them to go home.

The owner said that although they left, they went back to his son the next morning with an explanation stating that they were there to study.