Three handbag thieves remanded

The Madina Magistrate Court,  presided over by Mr Ernest K. A. Adjanor, has remanded Nii Kwame Lomotey, 39, unemployed;  Kwasi Mensah, 49, a mechanic; and Samuel Nii Armah, 45, a painter, in custody to reappear before it today January 31, 2014.

The three were charged on three counts of conspiracy to commit crime, stealing and causing unlawful damage.

According to the prosecutor, Assistant Superintendent of Police Mary Esinam Ahafianyo, the complainant, Reverend Alexander Kwadwo Agbozo, sent his sick wife to the Pentecost Hospital at Madina, a suburb of Accra, at about 9 p.m. and parked his car behind the wall of the hospital.

ASP Ahafianyo said while Rev. Agbozo was inside the hospital, he heard a loud noise outside so he came out, only to find out that the glass of the front passenger door of his vehicle had been broken and his black handbag containing important items and documents taken away.

During investigations, it came to light that a taxi driver who plied the Madina Estates Road had spotted two men breaking into the complainant’s vehicle and taking a black handbag which they threw into a private saloon car and sped off.

The said taxi driver, according to the prosecutor, alerted the security men on duty and chased the men with his taxi.

Along the line, ASP Ahafianyo said, the  the robbers’ car ran into a ditch around the Accra College of Education and they were arrested by their pursuers and the stolen handbag was retrieved.