Japhet Obeng, a school drop-out at Dormaa-Ahenkro has been imprisoned for 24 months by the local Circuit Court for stealing a Dorado mobile phone and GHC140 belonging to a teacher at Dormaa-Ahenkro.
Obeng pleaded guilty to the charge and was convicted accordingly.
Police Inspector Charles Agovi, prosecuting, told the court presided by Mr. Alexander Osei Tutu that the complainant in the case was a teacher at
Ebenezer preparatory school at Dormaa-Ahenkro while Obeng had dropped out of the Experimental Junior High School at Dormaa Ahenkro.
He said on October 13 this year, the teacher travelled out of Dormaa and invited his friend to sleep in his room till he returned.
The prosecution said the friend in turn asked Obeng to join him in the room but early the following day, the latter sneaked out of the room and his friend could not tell why until the landlord returned to detect that his mobile phone and GHC140 cash were missing.
Inspector Agovi said the teacher initially confronted his friend and asked him to return the items but the latter denied knowledge of the items
and led the teacher to Obeng who readily admitted the offence but insisted the amount involved was GHC12.00 and not GHC140.00 as claimed by the
teacher.
He said police could not retrieve the mobile phone, which Obeng said he had given to a friend whom he could not trace.