By Hafsa Obeng, GNA
Accra, Feb. 20, GNA – An Accra Circuit Court on Tuesday deferred the sentencing` of one Solomon Hope Ankrah, unemployed to March 2, after he had pleaded guilty to a charge of unlawful entry.
Solomon was put before the court for unlawfully entering the room of one Georgina Donkor, and robbing her.
He pleaded guilty to the charge of unlawful entry, but not guilty to the charge of robbery.
The court presided over by Mr Aboagye Tandoh convicted him on his own plea, but deferred the sentence to March 2.
The facts of the case as presented by Superintendent Patience Mario, were that, the complainant, Georgina, is a student residing at Ablakuma with her mother, while Solomon is unemployed and lives at Olebu, a suburb of Ablekuma.
She said on February 15, at about 12:55 hours the complainant heard the barking of their bull dog and decided to check it out, only to see the convict in the premises of the house, ordering the dog to get inside its cage.
She said the convict after locking the dog, forced opened the back door into the self-contained house of the complainant.
The prosecution said Solomon upon seeing the complainant rushed and held her ‘mesh’ hairdo, slapped her and ordered her to put her hands into her mouth, thereafter he asked her ‘who else was in the house with the complainant’.
The prosecution said the complainant told the convict that, her brother had just gone out to buy something. Solomon then pulled her by her hair to their hall and robbed her of a Techno mobile phone and an amount of GH¢30.00.
The convict, still holding the complainant’s hair, marched her and ransacked two other rooms and stole one Lumia 625 mobile phone, an amount of GH¢700.00, and one Samsung mobile phone.
Superintendent Mario said, Solomon again marched the complainant to the kitchen, picked a knife, and threatened to rape her if she refused to show him the keys to her mother’s room.
She said in the process, the convict heard noise outside, so he quickly left the complainant’s hair, rushed out and jumped over the fence wall leaving his slippers and the kitchen knife. The complainant rushed outside and raised an alarm.
During investigations by Police one of the stolen phones, which the convict threw into a nearby bush at the time he took to his heels, was retrieved.
GNA
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