A 26-year-old man, Bright Antwi, who admitted stealing two motorbikes at different locations on different dates, will spend the next 24 months in jail.
The convict, a resident of Aboaso, near Mamponteng in the Kwabre East District of the Ashanti region, took one of the motorbikes on October 9, 2019, at Asiwa, near Kokoben in the Bekwai Municipality.
He sold it for GH33.
Bright Antwi was charged with the two counts of stealing two motorbikes.
Prosecutor Detective Stephen Ofori, presenting facts of the case, told the Bekwai Magistrate court that Antwi admitted the charges that he stole the motorbike, registered M-19 AS 2531, was parked by the owner in front of his room before the night.
According to the prosecutor, the convict said he mounted the motorbike and rode it away after realising it was not locked.
He could not lead the police to retrieve it or identify the buyer to the law enforcement officers.
The convict, who went into hiding, was arrested on December 1, 2019, in another motorbike theft at Kokoben.
He told the police during the interrogation that he was behind the theft of the complainant’s motorbike on October 9, 2019.
He was subsequently sentenced to 24 months and 18 months on each count.
The sentences are supposed to run concurrently.