A 21-year-old ex-convict, Dawudu Isahaku, has been sentenced to four years imprisonment for breaking into a resident’s room to steal GHS 3,050 and a keypad phone at Damongo, the Savannah Regional capital.
He was handed the sentence by the Bole District Magistrate court presided over by His Worship Adward Essel on Thursday, February 23.
According to the prosecutor, Chief Inspector Abdulai Awuni, the accused person broke and entered a businesswoman’s room at night at about 11 pm with his friend Ayuba who is on the run and took the woman’s handbag and removed her mobile phone and an amount of GH 3,050.
Upon the noise from his friend in the room to search more bags, the victim woke up and started shouting for help.
Neighbours chased and arrested suspect Isahaku but unfortunately, his friend fled the scene.
Consequently, the accused person was sentenced to four years imprisonment with hard labour with the court agreeing he has not learned from his two years jail term which he just finished serving in December 2022.
The presiding judge added that the four years would be enough to change him and also serve as a deterrence to the youth who go around monitoring their victim’s sleeping time so that they can steal.
