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Driver remanded for snatching taxicab

He is alleged to have conspired with his wife to rob a driver of his Mazda Damio taxicab valued at GHC30,000

The Tarkwa circuit court has remanded a 32-year-old taxi driver, Timothy Amponsah, into police custody.

He is alleged to have conspired with his wife to rob a driver of his Mazda Damio taxicab valued at GHC30,000.

Amponsah, who was charged with conspiracy and robbery, has pleaded guilty with explanation.

He said, “my judge, l am jobless and my four children were out of school. This made me commit the crime. I am pleading to the court to temper justice with mercy.”

The court was presided over by Hathie Ama Manu. After listening to Amponsah’s explanation, the court entered a plea of guilty for him and deferred his sentence to Wednesday 3 May.

The police prosecutor, Joseph Lartey, told the court that Sampson Arhin (the complainant), 28, is a taxi driver who lives at Ankobra in the Prestea Huni-Valley Municipality.

Lartey said the accused person and his wife, Sheilla Omano, who is currently on the run, are residents of Asebu- Ankromah in the Central Region.

On 5 March, around 6pm the couple agreed to travel to Prestea and to rob a taxi from any driver they chanced upon.

The prosecutor said the same day at about 9:30pm, the accused and the wife arrived at Prestea to carry out the operation. They spotted the complainant in his taxicab with registration number AS 9230-22 and signaled him to stop.

The two then hired the services of the complainant from Prestea to Dumasi to visit a friend, but on arrival around 10:30pm, Omano made a phone call and later told Arhin that the person they had come to visit had left to Bogoso so they should proceed to the said place.

Lartey said in the course of the journey, Omano sat on the front passenger’s seat, while the accused who sat directly behind the driver attacked him around a rubber plantation and smeared powered pepper on his face.

He said the complainant lost control of the vehicle and the engine went off. The accused pushed him out of the vehicle and drove to an unknown destination.

On 6 March, the complainant reported the incident to the police in Bogoso and was given a medical form to go to the hospital, where he was treated and discharged.

The prosecutor said on 11 March, the police upon further investigation, arrested Amponsah at Asebu -Ankromah with the vehicle which had a different registration number AS 2716-19.

Lartey said during a search in the accused person’s room, the complainant’s original number plate was found.

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