False kidnapper sentenced, 5 others in juvenile court

General News of Tuesday, February 19, 2019

Source: citinewsroom.com

2019-02-19

Anthony Osei Prempeh, 18, a student of the Ghana Secondary Technical School (GSTS), who simulated the kidnapping of his student colleague, De-Vreeze Quainoo, in search of ransom, has been condemned.

He was convicted and sentenced to one year of good behavior.

His judge Michael Ampadu, president of Takoradi District Court, handed down his sentence, after spending a week in pretrial detention and expressing remorse as well as a plea for his lawyer's clemency.
Prempeh, who was arrested alongside five other students from three other high schools, will face a three-month jail sentence if he violates his one-year good-conduct bond. .

Three of the five other students, namely GSTS's De-Vreeze Quainoo, 17, Daniel Kwesi Essel, 17, Fijai Senior High, and Elijah Sam, 16, Takoradi Technical Institute, who also pleaded guilty to conspiring to to commit a crime the sentences are referred to a juvenile court and they will appear before a panel on March 21st for decision.

Evelyn Agyapong, 19, a student at Takoradi High School, and Calib Windbridge Ayetey Tagoe, 16, a student at the Takoradi Technical Institute, who instead pleaded not guilty, will also face juvenile courts. to defend their plea of ​​not guilty.

Context

De-Vreeze Quaynoo, allegedly conspired with other students to simulate the complaint for kidnapping.

Police said they were pursuing the other four accomplices.

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According to information provided by the Metropolitan Police Criminal Affairs Officer, Alhaji Musah Hussein Awinaba, Daniel and De-Vreeze have purchased and registered a new SIM card to use to launch appeals for the extortion effort.

The SIM card would have been used to call De-Vreeze's parents and relatives who lived in Sefwi Wiawso that he had been kidnapped and that the badailants were demanding a ransom of 9,000 GH ¢.

Supper. Hussein 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.

When the team members arrived at the scene, they found the De-Vreeze school uniform in the house and asked how the uniform had arrived.

The owner told the police that De-vreeze and the other alleged accomplices, namely Osei-Prempeh, Daniel and Evelyn, had visited his son, Elijah Sam, the previous night and had stayed there 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.