<\/p>\n
By Joyce Danso<\/p>\n
Accra, Dec. 30, GNA \u2013 The footage of Close-Circuit Television (CCTV) has led to the arrest of a 19-year-old unemployed man who broke into a house at Madina and stole a TV set and GHS48.00 cash.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Jamal Abubakar is said to have caused damage to a ceiling, a CCTV System Unit and 52-inch Television.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Appearing before an Adentan Circuit Court, Abubakar, has been charged with unlawful entry, causing unlawful damage, and stealing.\u00a0<\/p>\n
He pleaded guilty to the charges.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The Court presided over by Mrs Abena Amponsah Buansi convicted Abubakar on his own plea and sentenced him to five years imprisonment in hard labour.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Chief Inspector Anim Darko told the Court that the complainant, Rahinatu Eliasu, was a businesswoman residing at Madina near Doku Clinic.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The Prosecution said on October 7, this year, the complainant sent her children to school and later visited her shop at Redco, near Madina.\u00a0<\/p>\n
It said before the complainant left the house, she put off her meter and all lighting systems and locked the main gate.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The Prosecution said the complainant returned home at 7:00pm and realised that someone had put on\u00a0<\/p>\n
the meter and the lighting system in the house and rooms in the house had been ransacked.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The Prosecution said the complainant became alarmed because she went out with keys but the main door to the house had been opened.\u00a0<\/p>\n
According to the prosecution, the CCTV monitor system Unit had also been destroyed, a 52-inch flat screen TV had been destroyed and cash in the sum of GHS48.00 hidden under her pillow had been stolen.\u00a0<\/p>\n
It said a report was made at the Madina Police station and a team of Policemen visited the crime scene.\u00a0<\/p>\n
On December 18, 2022, after the examination of the CCTV footage, accused person was picked up at his hideout.\u00a0<\/p>\n
GNA\u00a0<\/p>\n