Twenty-eight year old Abdul Sadat Iddi on Monday wept
uncontrollably at an Accra Circuit Court after he was sentenced to 25 years
imprisonment for robbing a banker at gun point at Baatsona in Accra.
Iddi, whilst being escorted by the Police to begin his
prison term amidst weeping, pleaded with the trial judge Mr Aboagye Tandoh to
have mercy on him.
“My Lord I beg you, My Lord please have mercy on me. Oh
mother, please intervene,” he cried aloud in Ga, whiles his mother and other
relations looked on helplessly.
The police had a hectic time escorting him from the
Court, which was on a story building to the ground floor as he called on his
relatives to intervene.
Iddi, who was
charged with conspiracy to commit crime and robbery, pleaded not guilty.
The Court, however, at the end of the trial discharged him
on the conspiracy charge and convicted on the robbery charge.
Iddi and others now at large were said to have robbed
Samuel Romulus Okine on the dawn of December 7, last year of his two HP Laptop
computers, an Ipad with surf line Wi-Fi, two digital camera, and cash of GHC80
cedis, 300 dollars and 200 Euros.
He said on December 7, last year, at about 0200 hour,
whilst the complainant was in bed, he was attacked and held hostage by three
men armed with pistols and a pump action gun
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