Asamankese, July 26, GNA - An Asamankese Circuit Court has sentenced Kofi Okyere, a 44-year-old unemployed, to a four years imprisonment in hard labour on his own plea for stealing a radio cassette recorder valued at 400,000 cedis.

Prosecuting, Police Chief Inspector Joseph Idan, told the court presided over by Mr Justice Kofi Akrowiah, that Okyere lived in the same house with the complainant, Mr Martin Ohemen-Yeboah at Akroso. He said on June 10, 2002, the complainant travelled to Kumasi and returned later during the day to detect that his room had been broken into and his brand-new radio cassette recorder stolen.

The prosecutor said the complainant suspected Okyere who unceremoniously left Akroso after the incident.

He said efforts made to arrest the accused proved futile, until he returned to Akroso on July 6, this year, the police was informed and he was arrested.

The prosecution said the accused sold the recorder for 250,000 cedis to someone he could not identify.