Unemployed man sentenced to three years in prison for stealing cooking items

Unemployed man sentenced to three years in prison for stealing cooking items

An Accra Circuit Court punished a 25-year-old jobless young man who stole cooking goods worth GH1,450.00.

Ebenezer Bortey broke into the home of a barman and destroyed a padlock and door lock worth GH200.00.

Bortey pled guilty to all charges, including unauthorised entering, inflicting unlawful damage, and theft.

Bortey was found guilty of his plea and punished accordingly by the Court presided over by Mr Isaac Oheneba Kuffour.

Bortey was sentenced to 12 months in jail for unauthorised access and inflicting unlawful damage, and 36 months in prison for theft.

“Sentences are to run concurrently,” the Court said.

According to the prosecutor, Police Sergeant Priscilla Avoga, the complainant was a pub attendant who lived in the Nungua Kpokeke region, while the accused, now convicted, was a resident of Nungua Traditional Authority.

According to the prosecution, on July 24, 2023, at around 1700 hours, the complainant departed for work and returned the next day at approximately 0500 hours to find her door shattered and the room looted.

According to the complaint, the complainant conducted an inventory and discovered that her blender valued at GH400.00, microwave priced at GH500.00, rice cooker valued at GH280.00, gas cylinder valued at GH150.00, and a set of bowls valued at GH120.00 had all been taken.

According to the prosecution, the complainant raised an alert and afterwards learned that the defendant was caught in connection with another theft case in the neighbourhood.

According to the report, the complainant raced to the site of the arrest and discovered her stolen stuff with the offender. According to the prosecution, the complainant accompanied the defendant to the police station with her belongings and filed a complaint.