Fashion Designer remanded for robbery

An Accra Circuit Court on Tuesday remanded a Fashion Designer Emmanuel Kwesi Kpo into police custody for conspiracy to commit crime and robbery.

Emmanuel was said to have conspired with one Kofi Danso, now at large to rob one Grottle Abena Kermah of her Toyota car, and Paul Kwame Asamoah of his Nissan Almera car.

He pleaded not guilty to the charges and was remanded by the court presided over by Mr. Aboagye Tandoh to reappear on March 31 for commencement of trial.

The facts of the case as presented by Police Chief Inspector Kwabena Adu was that, the Accra Regional Police Command during 2015 received series of car snatching complaints within the metropolis.

He said intelligence gathered led to the arrest of the accused person on February 2, 2016 at Haatso as being a member of the syndicate involved in this car snatching.

He said upon interrogation, Emmanuel admitted knowing members of the syndicate and mentioned the name of one Kofi Danso as the ring leader and other members of the group as Yaw Broni, Aziggy and Douglas.

The prosecution said intelligence gathered also revealed that when the gang snatch a car from the owner, they drive straight to the spraying shop of one Alex at Kwabenya a suburb in Accra where the colour of the vehicle is changed and also with the help of some officials at the Driver Vehicle and Licensing Authority, (DVLA) at Tema and 37 offices of the authority forged documents in the name of Loretta Danso, wife of Kofi as owner of the vehicle to enable them sell same.

Police Chief Inspector Adu told the court that the accused person had also led police to retrieve nine of such cars from Accra and Cape Coast which they sold to unsuspecting members of the public.

He said in August and December 2015, the gang snatched two vehicles from their owners in Accra.

The prosecution told the court that the police were also working to locate the actual owners of the other vehicles they had seized from these robbers.