An Akim Oda magistrate court in the Birim Central Municipality, has sentenced an unemployed man, Kwaku Mensah, to six years imprisonment in hard labour for causing unlawful damage, unlawful entry and stealing. Mensah, 28, pleaded guilty to all the charges and the court presided over by Mr Albert Owusu Annor convicted him on his own plea and sentenced him to an 18-month prison term in hard labour to run consecutively. The convict unlawfully and intentionally caused damage to a padlock valued GH10.00, unlawfully entered the room of the plaintiff, stole a cash of GH¢7,800, and a Nokia mobile phone valued at GH¢200.00, belonging to Mr Yaw Dompreh, a cocoa purchasing clerk at Sarlakrom near Akim Ayirebi. Detective Inspector Kwaku Appiah had told the court that Mensah lived at Acquakrom near Mr Dompreh’s village and that the complainant used to engage his services occasionally for a fee. On December 30, last year, at about 1900 hours Mr Dompreh and his family left home for a church service and returned to find that his room had been broken into and the cash and other items taken away. Inspector Appiah added that a prosecution witness who travelled with the convict to Akim Ayirebi detected that the convict was spending lavishly and hence, suspected him of the theft. The witness, therefore, caused Mensah’s arrest and a search conducted on him revealed the Nokia phone concealed in a black polythene bag and an amount of GH¢6,600. He was handed over to the police. Source: GNA