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16th December, 2011
Ex-Convict Jailed 50 Years For Robbery
Kofi Nyarko, a convict who was released under the ‘Justice for All Programme,’ has been jailed 50 years by a circuit court here for robbery.
The Justice for All Programme brings judges to the prisons to determine the cases of inmates who have been on remand for a number of years without their cases being heard.
Nyarko, 38, was released under that programme in the middle of 2010, but three months afterward he got involved in another robbery with an accomplice, Bright Fosu, 28. Fosu was jailed 15 years.
They had pleaded guilty to charges of conspiracy to rob and robbery, and were sentenced on Tuesday, December13.
The court, presided over by Justice Emmanuel Amo Yartey, heard that on October 22, 2010, at about 12 midnight, Nyarko and Fosu conspired to go on a robbery spree and attacked a businessman, Samuel Ofosu Kwame, at Buokrom Estate and robbed him of his GH¢940.00 plus some documents as he was about to pick a taxi.
They then proceeded to Aboaso in the Kwabre District of Ashanti, broke into an electrical shop belonging to John Kwabena Kumah and made away with a welding machine and some valuable cables worth about GH¢570.00.
Following reports to the police, Nyarko was arrested at Bantama in November 2010, and he took the police to Fosu’s hide out where he was arrested.
The Justice for All Programme brings judges to the prisons to determine the cases of inmates who have been on remand for a number of years without their cases being heard.
Nyarko, 38, was released under that programme in the middle of 2010, but three months afterward he got involved in another robbery with an accomplice, Bright Fosu, 28. Fosu was jailed 15 years.
They had pleaded guilty to charges of conspiracy to rob and robbery, and were sentenced on Tuesday, December13.
The court, presided over by Justice Emmanuel Amo Yartey, heard that on October 22, 2010, at about 12 midnight, Nyarko and Fosu conspired to go on a robbery spree and attacked a businessman, Samuel Ofosu Kwame, at Buokrom Estate and robbed him of his GH¢940.00 plus some documents as he was about to pick a taxi.
They then proceeded to Aboaso in the Kwabre District of Ashanti, broke into an electrical shop belonging to John Kwabena Kumah and made away with a welding machine and some valuable cables worth about GH¢570.00.
Following reports to the police, Nyarko was arrested at Bantama in November 2010, and he took the police to Fosu’s hide out where he was arrested.
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