Ato Pobee Hayford, a 25-year-old student at the Abakrampa Secondary/Technical School in the Central Region, was on Tuesday remanded in prison custody by a circuit court at Cape Coast for allegedly stealing the property of a lecturer at the University of Cape Coast. His plea was not taken and he is to reappear on January 15. Prosecuting, Chief Inspector Augustine Amonoo told the court, presided over by Mr Richard Asiedu-Badu that both Hayford and the lecturer lived at 4th Ridge, a suburb of Cape Coast, and that on January 4 2008, at about 0800 hours the lecturer locked up his bungalow and left for town. He said he returned at about 15.25 hours to find a written note, stating, “don’t try to be a hero, we will be coming for the money” in front of his bungalow. He also detected that his bungalow had been broken into and items, including a computer and accessories, a 14-inch television set, a pair of shoes and some bedsheets had been stolen. Chief inspector Amonoo said Hayford who is a caretaker of a bungalow opposite the lecturer’s, was suspected, so the bungalow was searched and a pair of shoes and two speakers of a computer, were found hidden in the ceiling of the boys’ quarters. He said Hayford, who stays in the bungalow alone, denied the theft, and could not say how the items got there.Source: GNA