A Kumasi-based butcher, who, together with three accomplices, attacked a student at gunpoint on September 12, 2010 at Sabon Zongo, a Kumasi suburb, and robbed him, has been convicted and sentenced to a-50 year jail term with hard labour.
The police have mounted an intensive search for the three accomplices who are at large.
The convict, Abubarkar Omar, and his accomplices, battered the victim with the butt of guns they were wielding when they attacked him on September 12, 2010 around 10:30 p.m. at Sabon Zongo, before robbing him of two Nokia phones, a silver necklace and GH¢150.00.
Omar was sentenced after he had pleaded guilty to charges of conspiracy to rob and robbery when he appeared before the Kumasi Circuit Court presided over by Mr Emmanuel Amoo-Yartey.
Prosecuting, a State Attorney, Ms Anita Dennis Wase, said the complainant was a second year student of Antoa Senior High School and resided at Allah Bar, a Kumasi suburb, while the convict, who is a butcher at the Kumasi Abattoir, resided at Sabon Zongo with the three accomplices.
She explained that around 10:30 pm on September 12, 2010, the victim and some friends, who were witnesses in the case, were on their way home after delivering a message to somebody at Sabon Zongo.
He said on reaching the Asawasi M/A Junior High School, Omar and the three accomplices emerged from a hideout wielding locally manufactured pistols and ordered the victim and his friends to surrender their money and mobile phones to them.
Explaining further, Ms Wase said without any form of provocation, Omar started buttering the head of the student, opening a deep cut over his left eye that caused him to bleed profusely.
She said Omar and his accomplices succeeded in robbing the student of two Nokia phones valued at GH¢100.00, a silver necklace valued GH¢7.00, and cash of GH¢150.00, with threats on their lives before bolting with their booty.
Ms Wase said in spite of the severe injury the student sustained, he managed to lodge a complaint with the Asawase police and gave a statement before seeking medical care.
She said intensive police investigations led to the arrest of Omar on September 13, 2010, explaining that it was volunteers at Sabon Zongo who spotted Omar, arrested and handed him over to the police to assist in their investigations.
He said police investigations also led to the retrieval of the locally manufactured pistol he used to commit the crime.
Ms Wase said during investigations, the police also succeeded in retrieving the silver necklace from Omar during a search, and after giving his statement, he mentioned the names of the three accomplices, but the police could not locate them from their hideouts.
According to Ms Wase, on September 25, 2010, Omar again led the police to Akwatia Line, where the Nokia phones he took from the victim were retrieved and after further investigations, the police charged him with the offence.
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