Driver jailed for stealing goats

Awutu Beraku (C/R), Aug 10, GNA - Stephen Arkurson, a-40-year old Accra driver, has been jailed four years in hard labour by an Awutu Beraku magistrate's court for stealing five goats at Gomoa Fetteh. He pleaded guilty.

Police Chief Inspector William Kwame Akannah told the court that on May 25 the accused person and three others now at large went to Gomoa Fetteh with his taxi and committed the offence.

Chief Inspector Akannah said while returning with their booty, their taxi broke down near the Village of Hope Orphanage. The bleating of the goats attracted the Home's watchmen who fired warning shorts and later called the Police but before they arrived at the scene the accused and his accomplices had ran away.

The prosecution said Arkurson went back to Accra and informed his car owner that armed robbers had snatched the taxi on the Accra/Kasoa road. He his car owner told the driver to accompany him to report the case to the Anyaa Police Station but on reaching the police who had had information about the goats' theft from the Fetteh Police arrested him and took him to Fetteh.