Danjumah Alhassan, a 28- year-old mason, was on Tuesday convicted to 12 months imprisonment for causing unlawful damage, unlawful entering and stealing. Alhassan pleaded guilty to all the charges. Police Chief Inspector Franklin Nartey, prosecuting, told the court that the complainant, Francis Ecloo, is a carpenter, who resides at Suhum but has his carpentry workshop at Okorase near Suhum. He said on August 18, at about 1800 hours, the complainant closed his shop with a padlock and went home after work. At about 05:30 hours the following day, the complainant reported to work only to notice that his shop had been broken into and a sofa stolen. The prosecutor said, the complainant began his own investigations and had information that a taxi driver, who is a witness in the case, was seen at Doye-fitter, a suburb of Suhum at about 0500 hours on August 19 loading a sofa into his taxi. Chief Inspector Nartey said based on that information, the complainant arrested the witness and sent him to the police station. He said the witness told the police on interrogation that it was Alhassan who hired his car to convey the sofa to a house at Asokore-Zongo in Koforidua. The prosecutor said the witness then led the police to the said house where the sofa was recovered. He said on September 5 Alhassan was arrested at his hide- out at Nsukwao, a suburb of Koforidua. Chief Inspector Nartey said Alhassan admitted the offences in his caution statement and was charged accordingly.Source: GNA