Osman Shahu and Ahmed Suala, alias “Babs”, attacked and inflicted deep knife wounds on the victim, a taxi driver, before fleeing with his car.
They both pleaded guilty to the crime.
Police Chief Inspector Felix Akowuah told the court that the incident happened on March 10, at about 1100 hours.
The pair engaged the services of the victim, Kwadwo Boakye, to carry them in his taxi to Wurapong near Barekese.
Mid-way through the journey they attacked him with a knife, inflicting deep cuts all over the body, battered and threw him out of the car.
A passerby, who chanced upon the badly wounded driver went to his aid – rushed him to the Barekese Health Centre for treatment.
The prosecution said a formal report was later made to the police and investigations led to the arrest of the convicts and recovery of the stolen car, six days after the crime.
Source: GNA
By Florence Afriyie-Mensah, GNA
