"Man woman" gets a third jail term

Asamankese, July 16, GNA - Matilda Ampofoa, an unemployed woman from Asamankese, who travelled to Kade to steal two mobile phones on separate occasions and later attempted to abscond following her arrest by the police, was on Thursday sentenced to yet another jail term by the Kade Circuit Court.

On her third conviction, she goes to jail for two years for stealing the second mobile phone, after she had earlier been sent to prison for a year each for escaping from lawful custody and also for mobile phone theft.

Giving the facts of the case in the recent trial, Police Inspector Francis Cobbina said Ampofoa joined a taxi cab on June 3, 2009. She said at a point on their journey, the driver, Samuel Afedo, stopped to urinate and the convict took the opportunity to steal his Nokia 1110 mobile phone.

The prosecutor said it was after Matilda had alighted that the driver immediately noticed that his phone had been stolen and made vain attempts to trace her.

On learning that Matilda was likely to travel back to Asamankese, the driver rushed back to the Adankrono toll bridge and waited. Shortly there after he spotted a taxi cab carrying the wanted woman and pursued it, catching up with the vehicle at Boadua where he caused Matilda's arrest and handed her over to the police.