{"id":273669,"date":"2011-01-12T22:46:53","date_gmt":"2011-01-12T22:46:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/?p=46671"},"modified":"2011-01-12T22:46:53","modified_gmt":"2011-01-12T22:46:53","slug":"3-jailed-for-rape-robbery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/01\/12\/3-jailed-for-rape-robbery\/","title":{"rendered":"3 jailed for rape, robbery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-32505\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2010\/11\/11\/trader-jailed-120-months-for-stealing-phones\/court\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-32505\" title=\"court\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/court.jpg\" alt=\"court\" width=\"314\" height=\"234\" \/><\/a>A three-man armed gang which robbed a couple and raped the woman on her  matrimonial bed at gunpoint have been handed a total of 150 years in  hard labour for what the court described as &#8220;the most ignoble criminal  conduct&#8221;.<br \/>\nThe three Fred Agyapong, Christopher Gbetornyeku and  Kwame Adjei, broke into the New Weija home of the victims at about 2:30  am on September 18, 2007, tied the hands of the man, while Gbetornyeku  had sex with his wife.<br \/>\nAlthough they pleaded not guilty to two  counts of conspiracy and robbery, the Accra Circuit Court at the end of  the trial found them guilty and accordingly sentenced them to 10 years  each on conspiracy and 50 years each on the robbery charge to run  concurrently.<br \/>\nThe presiding judge, Mr. Eric Kyei Baffour, in  passing the sentence, held that the prosecution was able to lead  evidence against the convicts, noting it proved its case beyond all  reasonable doubt.<br \/>\n&#8220;The totality of evidence adduced on record  weighs heavily against them. I find that the prosecution has proved all  the ingredients of the offence against the accused persons beyond  reasonable doubt,&#8221; he said.<br \/>\nMr.Baffour said he took into  consideration factors such as the pre-meditation and the gruesome manner  in into which the crime was committed, the necessity to preserve decent  society frorn criminal conduct and the fact that they showed no remorse  for their action.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A three-man armed gang which robbed a couple and raped the woman on her matrimonial bed at gunpoint have been handed a total of 150 years in hard labour for what the court described as &#8220;the most ignoble criminal conduct&#8221;. The three Fred Agyapong, Christopher Gbetornyeku and Kwame Adjei, broke into the New Weija home [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-273669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>3 jailed for rape, robbery - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/01\/12\/3-jailed-for-rape-robbery\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"3 jailed for rape, robbery - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"A three-man armed gang which robbed a couple and raped the woman on her matrimonial bed at gunpoint have been handed a total of 150 years in hard labour for what the court described as &#8220;the most ignoble criminal conduct&#8221;. 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