ex-Cob acquitted and discharged of robbery

Five-member Supreme court panel, presided over by Justice Jones Dotse, has acquitted and discharged an ex Police Constable who was convicted in 2009 for robbery.

Former Police officer, Tetteh Samadzi, was incarceration for 15 years on the count of robbery.

The apex court deferred reasons for which they arrived at the decision to acquit and discharge Constable Tetteh Samadzi.

The five members of the apex court justices who sat on the case were, Justice Sulley Gbadegbe, Justice Anim Yeboah, Justice Gabriel Pwamang and Justice Anthony Benin.

Constable Tetteh Samadzi known also as TT, was arrested together with one Foster on Friday March 6, 2009, for a robbery incident which occurred at Pokuase in the Greater Accra Region.

He was interdicted and was subsequently found guilty of the offence by a Circuit court which sentenced him to fifteen years imprisonment.

He was still serving his fifteen years term at Nsawam Medium Prison and has so far spent eight years behind bars until he was acquitted and discharged yesterday.

After his incarceration, his lawyers proceeded to an Appellate court for redress but was not successful before he went ahead to appeal at the Supreme Court.

The constable Samadzi, somewhere in 2009, allegedly chauffeured the gang of robbers in a Volkswagen Golf with registration number GT 2472 R.

He was said to have told irate youth who were then searching for the robbers that he was called by Foster to help in the search for the criminals.

According to one of the robbery victims, an electrician, Samadzi was part of a gang of four men who came to his house beat him up, when he insisted he had no money in his house.

At about 1:00am on Independence Day, Samadzi and his gang robbed him of GH¢250, two mobile phones and a DVD player.

He said his door was forcibly opened with concrete blocks and shots from sophisticated weapons were fired indiscriminately during the robbery, holding everyone hypnotized.

Also, at about 3:00am that same day, the gang robbed one Evans Boakye, a newspaper vendor at the same location, and bolted with three phones and an amount of GH¢150.

At the time of their arrest, an AK47 rifle, a pistol, as well as live and spent cartridges were found in the car which had a police sticker on the windscreen.

By Maame AgyeiwaA Agyei