George Dodoo, an employee of Capital 02 Company would spend the next 25 years behind bars after robbing two pharmacy attendants of their day?s sales and mobile phones.
The accused person told the Accra Circuit Court where he was arraigned that he, indeed, committed the act of robbery with an accomplice, who managed to escape and prayed for mitigation of sentence.
The trial judge, Francis Obiri, consequently convicted the accused on his own plea to 25 years in prison.
Narrating events leading to the arrest of the accused, the prosecutor, ASP Duuti Tuaruka, said the complainants were Asare Michael and Grace Asante; both shop attendants at a pharmacy and residents of Tetegu whilst the accused, Dodoo, is an employee of Capital 02 Company.
He said on July 6, 2013, the accused person and an accomplice, wielding a pistol, went into the pharmacy shop of the attendants and asked them to surrender all the money they had.
According to him, they obeyed for fear of their lives and Dodoo and his accomplice afterwards after the act ordered the complainants to enter the storeroom of the shop. When they did, the suspects locked them up, quickly boarded a taxi and bolted.
The police officer said the attendants managed to open the door and shouted at the taxi driver carrying the two persons to stop but the accomplice of Dodoo managed to escape and only he was arrested.
Furthermore, he said after his arrest the mobile phone of Grace was found on Dodoo and he was consequently taken to the police station and arraigned after police concluded investigations.
Source-Daily Guide
