A circuit court in Cape Coast on Wednesday sentenced a 20-year-old cobbler to 15 months imprisonment in hard labour, for stealing two mobile phones. Richard Oduro, a native of Adansi Fomena in the Ashanti region, lives with his accomplice, one Batman, who is now at large, in a Kiosk at Prospect Hill, a suburb of Cape Coast. He pleaded guilty and was convicted on his own plea. Corporal Mary Mensah, prosecuting, told the court, presided over by Mr Samuel Asare Nyako, that the complainants, two ladies, were ambushed and attacked and their mobile phones snatched from them at midnight on Sunday September 5 by Oduro and Batman behind the kiosk in which they slept. According to the Prosecutor, one of the ladies informed her mother about the incident and she confronted the owner of the kiosk, who went to the place to retrieve the phones from the two friends, but they were nowhere to be found. She said the lady waited with her mother until late evening when Oduro returned and she identified him as one of the two young men who snatched her phone but Oduro denied the offence. Corporal Mensah said upon thorough interrogation by the owner of the kiosk, Oduro admitted the offence and led them into the kiosk to retrieve one of the phones. She said the other lady upon hearing that the first complainant had retrieved her phone went to the kiosk and also identified the accused. Oduro told her that her phone got lost from his pocket in their attempt to bolt with their booty and the lady reported him to the police who arrested him but his accomplice, Batman, had since been on the run. Source: GNA