A 24-year-old butcher was on Thursday sentenced to 30 years imprisonment in hard labour by a Kumasi circuit court for robbery. Steven Yorose, also known as “Grushi” denied the offence, insisting he was framed up. A state attorney, Mr Otoo Boison, told the court presided over by Mr Emmanuel Amo-Yartey that on September 7, 2006, at about midnight, the complainant, James Badu Wuni, was sleeping together with his two friends when they were rudely woken by a big bang on the door to their room. All of a sudden, they saw that the door had been forced open by Awuni Anaba, already serving a prison term, Yorose and another person, now on the run. Mr Bioson said the three were armed with locally made pistols and gave warning shots to scare off people in the neighbourhood. They succeeded in robbing the complainant of his Motorola cell phone and cash of GH¢25.00. Yorose and the other person managed to escape but Anaba, was arrested, arraigned and jailed 21 years in hard labour for the crime. The prosecution said on June, 17, this year, Yorose visited Anaba at the Kumasi Central Prisons and there the latter gave him out. Yorose was contradictory in his defence, claiming at one point that he was framed up by Anaba, on suspicion that, he was in a relationship with his lover. He later on shifted from this line of argument and denied either knowing Anaba or having ever been to Trede, the very community, where the crime was committed, saying that, Anaba caused his arrest over his refusal to give GH¢200.00 he demanded from him. Source: GNA