A businessman aggressively challenged a Circuit court judge after he was sentenced to 15 years imprisonment on the charges of conspiracy to steal, abetment of crime and money laundering.
Immediately the Judgement was read, Frank Kwesi Obeng reportedly asked: “Please do you know me somewhere, why have you given me 15 years jail term?”
Obeng then took off his shirt and walked aggressively towards the judge.
But with the timely intervention of the prosecutor and a court warrant officer, the trial judge, Evelyn Asamoah, was escorted to her chambers.
Obeng was then escorted out of the courtroom bare-chested and without his sandals.
Some sympathisers who thronged the court also objected to the judgement of the court, expressing their doubt over the complainant’s claims.
Also in the dock was Joyce Safowaa, his wife and an accomplice, who was also found guilty on the charges of conspiracy to steal, abetment of crime and stealing GHC 712, 229 belonging one Mavis Toffan, the complainant.
Safowaa is to serve 10 years imprisonment, to which she shouted amidst tears: “God, I am dreaming”! and sat in the chair in apparent disbelief.
The trial Judge, Evelyn Asamoah at the end of the trial, ordered that all the landed property and a Toyota Venza believed to have been acquired through the crime proceeds were to be given to the complainant.