An Accra Circuit Court sentenced a painter to three years Ghana jail for stealing a graphic designer's HP laptop computer.
Kelvin Boateng was sentenced to three years in prison for both unauthorized entry and theft. The sentences must run concurrently.
Police Inspector Wisdom Alorwu told the court, presided over by Mrs Christiana Eyiah-Donkor Cann, that Dennis Appau, the complainant, was a graphic designer in La, an Accra suburb, where the prisoner worked as a painter but lived in Agbogbloshie.
He stated that on December 31, 2024, at around 10:30 a.m., the complainant and witnesses in the case were working in his office when the felon mounted the fence wall into one of the offices, grabbed the computer, and fled.
Inspector Alorwu said the convict was seen by a witness carrying the computer and raised the alarm. The convict hid the laptop in an uncompleted building close by.
The complainant, upon detection of the theft, mounted a search together with the witnesses and found the convict with the laptop computer.
Prosecution said he was arrested and handed over to the police for investigation.
Boateng admitted the offences during investigations and was duly arraigned.
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