From George Ernest Asare, Kumasi.
Two young men who conspired to rob three members of staff of the Home Finance Company (HFC) in Kumasi of a Toyota saloon car, mobile phones and assorted personal items have been convicted to serve 30 years in jail each with hard labour by a Kumasi High Court.
The convicts, Kwame Adu, 21, and Kwadwo Bright, 21, driving a stolen blue Toyota Hilux, with registration number GN 1520-09, succeeded in hijacking the Toyota saloon car, with registration number AW 686 Z, belonging to the three members of staff of the bank.
That was after the convicts, one of whom was brandishing a gun, had crossed the saloon car with their stolen pick up, forcing the car to stop abruptly. They then took over the car and sped off with it, leaving their victims stranded.
The incident occurred on the Asokore-Mampong road in Kumasi on February 25, 2010.
The Toyota saloon car, estimated at GH¢15,000, is yet to be retrieved from the convicts after they had been arrested by the police.
The police, however, succeeded in retrieving some of the personal items in a bag that was in the car.
Before judgement was passed, the convicts pleaded for leniency but the court ignored that plea and imposed a heavy punishment for the offence.
Giving the facts before the court, a Senior State Attorney, Mr Ernest Ofei Ayeh, said the convicts, together with two others, trailed the complainants after they had closed from work and succeeded in crossing their car on the Asokore- Mampong road.
He said moments after the car had stopped, Bright, who was wielding a locally manufactured gun, ordered all the people in it to come out.
He said moments afterwards, the convicts took over the car and sped off, taking along complainants’ bags and other valuables.
He said after lodging complaints with the police, the complainants were invited to the police station a few days later where some of the items in their bags, including their identity cards, were given to them.
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