Cop Testifies In Amanfrom Robbery Trial

A police investigator at the Accra Regional Police Wednesday opened the trial of the two unemployed young men suspected to be behind some robbery incidents at American Farm near Kasoa in the Central Region.

D/Cpl Samuel Adu told the court that the accused persons- Jafaru Barasu and Abdallah Mohammed – were arrested and brought to the police station by some residents in the area.

He said according to the residents the accused persons attacked them and inflicted cutlass and gunshot wounds on them.

Led in evidence by Chief/Insp E. Afful, D/Cpl Adu stated that he and a team of investigators were subsequently dispatched to the scene of the crime and further to the residence of the accused persons.

He said 10 victims said they were attacked by the robbers while others claimed that they were unable to identify the two because the weather was bad at the time of the incident.

At the residence of the accused persons, the police officer stated, nothing incriminating was found.

In cross-examining the witness, Theophilus Donkor, lawyer for the accused persons, while repeating his application for bail, asked D/Cpl Adu how many years he had been a police officer, to which he said 10 years.

The trial judge, Aboagye Tandoh, however adjourned ruling on the bail application until today.

The duo is being tried for conspiring and robbing one Ishmael Ayaa Tagoe, a tiller, of his GH¢800 cash and a TECHNO mobile phone.

The facts of the case, as presented by Chief/ Insp E. Afful, are that the accused persons are unemployed living at Kasoa Great Lamptey Mills.

He said at about 2:30am on August 24, a group of armed robbers attacked and robbed residents of Amanfrom American Farm and Top Town.

The prosecutor said the accused persons robbed the residents of their money, mobile phones and inflicted cutlass wounds on them.

Chief/ Insp Afful stated that following the attacks on the people of the aforementioned places, the accused persons were arrested on suspicion by the residents and handed over to the police.

He said on August 27, the Regional Police Command conducted an identification parade for the victims to help identify the accused persons, adding that Tagoe and one Moses subsequently identified the two as the people who robbed them.

By Jeffrey De-Graft Johnson/dailyguideGH