Two former prisoners sentenced to 140 years in prison for robbery

Crime & Punishment of Wednesday, January 16, 2019

Source: 3news.com

2019-01-16

Two ex-convicts who, according to the police, gained notoriety by stealing residents of the Sekondi-Takoradi metropolis in the western region of the country were sentenced to 140 years in prison by the Takoradi District Court.

Nicholas Nana Takyi, 32, and Charles Kwame Ampong, charged with 27 counts of conspiracy to steal and rob, will serve 50 and 90 years respectively.

In 2018, they pleaded not guilty to the charges but, after a full trial, the court presided over by Ms. Abigail Animah Asare found them guilty.

In sentencing them, the court noted that both are already "known to the law", which has required a heavier sentence.

The two people who lived in the same house in Apowa at Takoradi and were flying pbadengers and residents at the Accra Station in the Top Ten were arrested on October 1, 2018 around 2 pm.

Residents of the area complained about the robbery and attacks of the convicts, which forced them to defend their arrest.

According to the prosecution, the convicts were quickly sent home, where the police recovered cell phones, batteries, phone chargers, SIM cards, memory cards, women's shoes, women's clothing and a schoolbag.

The police stated that she "could not give police a reasonable answer as to how she had acquired these items."

According to the prosecution, one of their victims identified one of the cell phones as being his and that this one had been stolen from his store at Accra station at a time when it was drugged.

An identification parade was then organized and five other people, including an Isaac Onomah, whom they had attacked with a knife, identified the convicts as the people who attacked and stole them.