The Agona Swedru Magistrate’s Court has sentenced two prisoners, who escaped from lawful custody, to 24 months imprisonment each.
Kwesi Delad, 27, and Isaac Marful, 21, both unemployed, pleaded guilty to the charge of escaping from lawful custody and the court presided by Mr Isaac Apeatu sentenced them on their own plea.
The two, together with two others, Jallo Yussifu, 38, and Sumaila Ibrahim, 26, now at large, scaled the wall of the Agona Swedru Police Station after destroying padlocks to the cells.
Two police officers, Corporal Rebecca Frempong and Justice Kweku Morfia, who were on duty at the time of the incident, were given 10 days ultimatum as per the rules and regulations of Ghana Police Service to re-arrest the escapees or face the consequences.
Prosecuting, Inspector Clara Salia, told the court that Delad and Marful and two others, who were in police custody, escaped, but Delad and Marful were re-arrested at Mankrong-Junction.
The court heard that the police had mounted an intensive search for the arrest of the two others. – GNA
