Court remands four on conspiracy charges

An Accra Circuit Court has remanded four persons who were said to have conspired together with a common purpose to commit crime to wit robbery.

Enoch Arthur, Translator; Francis Kwame Kumah, Solomon Akunnor, and Yussif Addy; all drivers pleaded not guilty to the charge of conspiracy.

The Court presided over by Mr Aboagye Tandor, however remanded the four and adjourned the case to April 7 to take a decision on the application for bail by the counsel for the accused persons.

The facts of the case as presented by Chief Superintendent of Police Duuti Tuaruka are that the complainant is a Chinese’s National and the Director of AGM Casino at Adjiringanor, in East Legon, whiles the accused persons are all workers of the complainant.

He said Enoch and Francis reside in the company’s premises together with one Catherine Mensah who is the house help of the complainant and a witness in the case.

He said some time ago Francis confided in Catherine his intentions to steal the complainant’s money and run away.

He further explained to Catherine his plans to go into hiding after stealing the money, and stated that if he succeeded in stealing the money, he would ask for her assistance in conveying his personal belongings to him at a place he was going to hide.

The prosecution said Catherine told Francis that she would not support his plans to steal from the complainant and that she would not be in a position to send his belongings to him at the said hideout.

He told the court that the witness later told Solomon about the intentions of Francis but he rebuked her and asked her not to tell anyone.

Chief Superintendent Tuaruka said Francis later informed Enoch of what he had planned to do.

He also bought into the idea and went further to recruit people to attack and rob the complainant.

He told the court that on March 14, at about 1900 hours Enoch sent Francis to Adjiringanor and brought one Gideon and two others now at large to the house without the knowledge of the complainant to survey the area, and showed them the room where the money was kept.

He said on March 16, at about 1139 hours the witness Catherine who was alone in the house was watching television in her room when Gideon and the other two attacked her with cutlasses. They tied her with a rope; cello taped her mouth and kept her in the kitchen.

According to the prosecution, the robbers broke into the strong room of the complainant and stole an amount of GHC251,000.00, $100.00US, 600 Yuan and a wedding ring.

Chief Superintendent Tuaruka said further investigations disclosed that when the robbery took place Enoch informed Yussif of his involvement in the robbery and promised to give him some of the money and as such he should not disclose it to anyone.

A report was made to the police and the accused persons were arrested. They admitted the offence in their caution statement and promised to assist the police arrest Gideon and his accomplices.