Two Tricycles theft Sends a Labourer to 2 Years imprisonment 

The Asamankese Circuit Court, presided over by His Honour Abubakari Abass Adams has sentenced a 24-year-old labourer, Hamid Torkane to two years imprisonment for stealing two Tricycles in Adankrono- Kade, in the Eastern Region of Ghana.

Hamid Torkane, the accused pleaded guilty to two counts of stealing and he was convicted two years each but will run concurrently.

According to the Police Prosecutor, Detective Inspector Wisdom Banson, on July 23, 2021, at about 3:00 am at Adankrono near Kade, dishonestly appropriated one unregistered Luojia tricycle valued at ¢13.000, property of one Gladys Akoto.

The prosecution continued, on the same day, the accused again at Adankrono near Kade dishonestly appropriated one unregistered Luojia tricycle with registration number M-21-GE 6183 worth ¢12,000, and a property of Richard Ansah Baah.

The prosecutor lamented, two accomplices of the accused are on the police wanted list currently.

He said they travelled from Accra to Kade on July 22 with the intention to move from house to house and steal tricycles.

The prosecutor narrated, that the accused person and his accomplices after managing to steal two of the tricycles tried to run away but Hamid Torkane was arrested at Boadua Barrier while the others managed to swerve the police.

Upon Interrogation, the accused mentioned his accomplices and admitted the offence, and was sent to court for prosecution.

William Ofori Akwaboa, Eastern Regional Correspondent