Four persons, including a police officer and an ex-soldier, were yesterday sentenced to 120 years in prison by an Accra Circuit Court. Lance Corporal Martin Agyare of the Police Mobile Force in Accra; eX- Leading Aircraftman, Iddrisu Ato; Harrison Tawiah, a driver; and Agbeko Mannah, were convicted after the court found them guilty of conspiracy to commit crime and robbery. The court, presided over by Mr Francis Obiri, sentenced each person to 20 years’ imprisonment for conspir¬acy and 30 years for robbery, all to run concurrently. Presenting the facts of the case, State Attorney Fred Kusim Adwen- daogo told the court that at about 2.30pm on April 15, 2012 the com¬plainant, Louis Ofori Damson, with¬drew an amount of S700 from the ADB Western Union point at Achi- mota Mile 7. According to him, the complainant, who headed towards Achimota on his motorbike, was accosted by the ac¬cused persons at Neoplan in a Kia Rio taxi with registration number GE 7537-11. State Attorney Adwendaogo told the court that Lance Corporal Agyare, armed with an AK-47 assault rifle, or¬dered the complainant to surrender the money on him. He said the accused persons col¬lected the money from the com¬plainant and thereafter pulled him into their taxi and placed the motorbike in the boot of the car. He added that they drove the com-plainant to De Georgia car garage at Tesano, where they gave the motor¬bike back to him. Mr Adwendaogo said the accused persons asked the compla inant to fol¬low them to the Police Headquarters, but they bolted with the money. The complainant later made a re¬port to the police on-May 22,2012 and with the help of police informants the accused persons were arrested while planning to embark on another rob¬bery. The convicts carried out their ille¬gal operations at wee-smoking joints and around automated teller machines (ATMs) of banks, from where they trailed their victims to rob them. According to the police, the four had been terrorising people at Tesano, Madina,-the University of Professional Studies, Adentan, Airport, Dzorwulu and Achimota in the mornings and af¬ternoons. After trailing people who had with-drawn money from the ATMs, the sus- - pects often created the impression of causing the arrest of those people for some offences, under the pretext of sending them to the Police Headquar¬ters. On the way, the gang of four would collect whatever amount of money on their victims before releasing them.