An Accra Circuit Court on Friday convicted one Alex Ametepe, unemployed for robbery but differed sentencing to May 5.
Alex was convicted after he pleaded guilty to the charge of robbing one mobile phone, worth GHc 250.00, before the court presided over by Mr Aboagye Tandoh.
The court, however, deferred the sentence for the prosecution to ascertain his age.
It ordered the Court’s Registrar to write to the Police Hospital to ascertain his age before the next adjourned date.
The convict was therefore remanded into the borstal home, and case adjourned to May 5, pending the results from the Police Hospital.
The facts of the case as presented by Superintendent of Police Kweku Bampah was that the complainant, Lena Nyakpenu is a student and resides at Addjiringanor, while the convict is unemployed and has no fixed place of abode.
He said during the wee hours of April 12, whilst the complainant was on her way to buy bread from a nearby shop, the accused emerged from nowhere and asked the complainant to call a number for him with her mobile phone.
He said the complainant obliged, but in the course, she suspected a foul play as Alex kept asking her to make more calls for him though there were no responds from those she contacted.
The prosecution said at a point, the accused advance towards the complainant and ordered her to surrender her ‘Jenius’ mobile phone to him.
Superintendent Bampah said the complainant resisted but the convict held her from behind, pushed her down, assaulted her and threatened her that he would stab her with a knife.
He said in the course, he succeeded in robing her of the Jenius mobile phone worth GH250.00 and escaped.
The complainant raised alarm and with assistance of some neighbours around, Alex was chased and arrested. A search conducted on him revealed the Jenius mobile phone and a small kitchen knife with a black handle.
He told the court that Alex was handed over to the police and a medical form issued to the complainant to attend hospital. In his caution statement, he admitted the offence.
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