Ex-convict sentenced 24 months for stealing domestic animals

A 40-year-old ex-convict, Kwame Adu, has been sentenced to 24 months imprisonment for stealing a goat and three fowls by the Akim Oda Magistrate Court.

Kwame Adu, unemployed, admitted stealing the domestic animals.

Briefing the court presided over by Mr Albert Owusu Annor; Police Inspector Kwaku Appiah said the ex-convict has a habit of stealing domestic animals.

Inspector Appiah said the complainant is a taxi driver and lives with the convict at Akim Swedru in the Birim South District.

He said on May 22, 2012, at about 0345 hours the complainant was driving a taxi with registration number GW 2092-11 from Akim Swedru towards Akim Oda in the Birim Central Municipality when he was stopped by Adu, who was carrying a sack.

The prosecutor said when Adu boarded the taxi he started behaving suspiciously and so the driver drove straight to the Police Station and reported Adu’s behaviour to them.

He said when the sacks he was carrying were opened, they found a dead goat estimated at GH¢90 and three fowls also valued at GH¢45.

Inspector Appiah said the convict initially told the police during interrogation that he picked the dead goat by the roadside while the fowls belonged to him.**