The Tarkwa District Court One has sentenced Enoch Buamah, a 19-year-old illegal miner, to three months’ imprisonment in hard labour for stealing assorted items worth GH¢7,563.00.
Buamah, who was recently jailed for a similar offence, pleaded guilty to unlawful entry, causing damage, and stealing. He was sentenced to three months in prison on each count, but the sentences will run concurrently.
The prosecutor, Inspector of Police Patrick Essien, told the court presided over by Charles Owusu Nsiah that Patricia Kyei, a hairdresser, was the complainant.
He said that although Madam Kyei and Buamah lived in the Nyametease community in the Prestea Huni-Valley Municipality, her house was located on the outskirts of the town.
The prosecution stated that on December 11, 2024, Madam Kyei left her house locked to attend a programme in Akotom, a town along the Tarkwa-Bogoso highway.
Inspector Essien said that upon returning on March 12, 2024, she found her house burgled and the door damaged.
The complainant discovered that the inner door lock, valued at GH¢1,000, had been destroyed, and items such as a television set, two half-pieces of cloth, two yards of cloth, three sets of cooking utensils, cutlery, a plastic chair, a table, bowls, assorted soaps, dresses, waist beads, a dressing bag, a mirror, and an ice chest, all worth GH¢7,563.00, were stolen.