A 30-year-old trickster, who took advantage of a single mother's desperation for a husband to steal some of her personal belongings, has been
jailed five years by a Kumasi Circuit Court.
Joseph Frimpong, alias Adjei, pleaded not guilty to the crime.
Police Chief Inspector Joseph Okrah told the court presided over by Mr Emmanuel Amoh-
Yartey that the complainant, Afia Boatemaa, is a trader and lives at Agric-Kokode in the Atwima
-Kwanwoma district.
About six months ago, the two met in Kumasi where the convict proposed marriage and Boatemaa readily accepted.
Frimpong insisted that the woman took her to the house, which she did and there he convinced her to allow him to carry away her faulty television set and video deck for repairs.
The prosecution said on his next visit, the convict spent the night with her. The woman after seeing him off left for Kumasi on her routine trading business.
Frimpong, later sneaked back into the house and persuaded the complainant's 13-year old son
to give the keys to the mother's room under the pretext of collecting some items for her.
Once inside, Frimpong made away with Boatemaa's five pieces of wax print, a kente cloth, her two cell phones, a dressing bag, wrist watch and necklace.
On her return, she detected the theft and made a report to the police.
The convict, however, run out of luck on June 28, when he was spotted by the woman,
who caused his arrest.