A 29-year-old unemployed man who robbed a Bolt driver of his iPhone 6s plus at Teshie has been sentenced to 10 years imprisonment by an Accra Circuit Court.
Charged with Robbery, Daniel Adjei, pleaded guilty.
The court presided over by Mrs. Patricia Amponsah convicted Adjei on his plea.
Narrating the facts of the case, Inspector Rosemond Anyane, told the Court that complainant David Dorkli was a Bolt driver. The accused person now, a convict, and the complainant, resided at Ablekuma and Teshie respectively.
Inspector Anyane said the complainant had a request from a client at Teshie and on reaching the pickup point at Teshie Gonno School, Adjei emerged and told the complainant that he was the one who requested his service.
The prosecutor said Adjei sat in the front seat of the complainant’s car, and he pointed and identified one lady as his sister who was coming to join him in the vehicle.
Suddenly Adjei forcibly took the complainant’s iPhone valued at GHS700 and took it to his heels.
The Prosecutor said the complainant and a witness in the case chased Adjei and they apprehended Adjei together with the phone.
Adjei was handed over to the Police and during a search, the Police found a pair of scissors concealed in his outfit.
The prosecution said Adjei in his caution statement admitted the offense.
Being an Uber, taxi driver or a commercial driver has become one of the most dangerous profession this pas years. There have several matters concerning these drivers being kidnapped, killed or sometimes abused. Just last week, a taxi driver was brutally stabbed by three Opoku ware senior high school students who tried robbing him of his taxi, same happened to a US-based ghanaian taxi driver who was beaten to death by some passengers he had picked who refused to pay. Confronting them lead to his untimely death.
Netizens on this note showed their appreciation to the authorities for punishing this particular culprit.
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