The Kade District Magistrate court has fined two students GH¢720 each or in default 15 months in prison in hard labour. Prince Gyekye, a student of Asamankese Senior High School and Alhassan Nurudeen of the Kade Senior High Technical School, both in their third year, pleaded guilty to four counts of conspiracy to commit crime, unlawful entry, stealing and having implements intended or adopted for unlawful entry. Prosecuting, Police Inspector Francis Cobbina said the complainant who owns a boutique at Kade for some time experienced theft of clothes and other items from the shop. As a result, he decided to be watching the shop and on February 13 this year, at about 01300 hours he heard an unusual noise in the shop He called someone and when they got to the shop they detected that the padlock had been removed and realised that people were in the shop. He went home and brought another padlock with which he locked the shop with the thieves in. The shop owner raised the alarm that attracted neighbours to the scene. The police were informed and when the shop was opened the two were found having collected eight T shirts, three polo shirts and a singlet and packed them in polythene bags. They were arrested and sent with their booty to the police station. When they were searched instruments found on them included a knife, chisel, hammer, spanner, two pliers, three screw drivers and eight bunches of keys totalling 59 keys. They also had in their possession a machine for measuring blood pressure, two mobile phones and 240.65 Ghana cedis. The two admitted the offences and explained that the implements found on them were used in their operations. The prosecutor asked the court to mete out severe custodial sentence to serve as a deterrent to others. But the Judge, Mr Abdul Majid Iliasu, said the accused persons were students in their third year and since the judicial system allowed for such persons to reform, he was sentencing them to a fine. Source: GNA