Crime & Punishment of Thursday, 1 July 2021Source: www.ghanaweb.com• The robbers were arrested in 2019 by a search party• A bus driver managed to escape the robbery and reported to Police• Their sentence is to deter other robbersThree highway robbers were on Wednesday, June 30, 2021, sentenced to a total of 210 years in jail by the Techiman Circuit court. His Lordship Justice Alexander Graham who presided over the case sentenced the three robbers to 70 years in jail each. He said, “robbery is on [a] high in Techiman and it’s becoming a lucrative business to those engaging in it. According to Mr. Kudorlor, one driver, James Annane, was able to drive across the blockade mounted by the robbers and made a distress call to police nearby and a swift search team was assigned to search for the robbers. The police team arrested the robbers a day after the robbery incident.

Source: GhanaWeb July 01, 2021 06:56 UTC