House help remanded for aiding and abetting crime

An Accra Circuit Court has remanded one Leticia Oppong, a house help for aiding and abetting one Emma and two others at large to commit crime.

Leticia was charged for abetment of crime and was remanded by the court to reappear on March 27. She pleaded not guilty

Presenting the facts of the case, Police Inspector, K. Adu told the court that the complainant Regina Rose Abban, is a pensioner, while the accused is employed in the house of the complainant's daughter as a house help.

He said on February 13, 2015, in the morning, the accused, who happens to know suspect Emma, now at large, told him the complainant had just returned from the United Kingdom after a long stay.

He said suspect Emma told the accused person to assist him rob the house. They exchanged telephone numbers and he left.

The two communicated on phone and agreed that, Emma should look for other boys to rob the house after which she (the accused) would be given part of the booty.

The prosecution said on February 26, at about 1400 hours, Emma and two accomplices all at large, armed themselves with knives, entered the house and met the accused person in the hall, and she showed them where the complainant was sleeping in one of the bedrooms.

He told the court that, Emma and one of his accomplices went into the bedroom, tied the complainant with a yellow nylon rope, beat her up and wounded her in the arm with a knife.

Police Inspector Adu said they robbed the complainant of 3,500.00 U.K pounds sterling, GH¢600.00, a mobile phone and an unspecified amount of money in an envelope.

He said they later pushed the complainant under the bed and came back to the hall to meet the accused person. They intentionally tied her in the complainant’s room to avoid any suspicion of her involvement and they bolted.

He said a report was made to the Dansoman police. The following morning, the accused met Emma at Commando, a suburb of Dansoman and collected her share of GH¢1,000.00, and later went to the police and gave her statement, denying her involvement in the robbery.

According to the prosecution, a witness in the case was later brought to the house to stay there since there was no man in the house.

The witness became so close to the accused person and after a while she confessed to him that she arranged with Emma and his accomplices to rob the house.

Police Inspector Adu told the court that the accused person later led the witness to retrieve her share of the booty from one Maame Yaa. The police was alerted and she was arrested.