Mason steals, gets 36 months’ imprisonment

Mr Asiedu, in passing the sentence said he took notice of the fact that the phone and the bag that Doker had stolen had been retrieved and that mitigated his punishment.

Chief Inspector John Akuetteh, the prosecutor, said the complainant, Eunice Odonkor was a trader at Atimpoku while Doker was a mason and also resided at Atimpoku.

He said on November 22, 2013, at about 11:30 a.m. at Powmu-Tuskei near Akosombo, Odonkor was on her way to pay his younger brother’s school fees.

According to the prosecutor, on the way, Odonkor met Doker, who was coming from the opposite direction of the road leading to the school.

Chief Inspector Akuetteh said immediately Doker passed by Odonkor, he quickly snatched her bag hanging on her shoulder containing a mobile phone worth GH¢300, GH¢400 cash and other personal items worth GH¢100 and fled into a nearby bush.

The prosecutor said Odonkor shouted for help and some masons who were working around chased Doker and arrested him.

He said when Doker was searched, a mobile phone and cash of GH¢20 was found on him. 

He later led Doker and the men who arrested him to where he had hidden the handbag but the GH¢400 cash was not in the bag except the other petty items.

Doker was sent to the police station at Akosombo where he admitted the offence in his caution statement but denied any knowledge of the cash of GH¢400.

The court ordered the police to hand over the bag and the items in it to the complainant.