Cape Coast, May 21, GNA - Ignatius Howe, 40, an ex-serviceman, was on Monday sentenced to 45 years imprisonment in hard labour by a high court in Cape Coast for robbing a businessman in June 2005. He had pleaded not guilty.

Prosecuting, Ms Patience Klinogo, a Principal State Attorney, told the court that Howe, who had been dismissed from the Ghana Armed Forces and four other armed robbers at large, attacked one Mr Anthony Kwabena Emil, a businessman at Eyifua, a suburb of Cape Coast. They robbed him of 5,850,000 cedis, a mobile phone and some clothing and bolted but Howe was arrested when the victim pointed him out at an identification parade after the police had later carried out a swoop on criminals.

The convict denied being among those who robbed Mr Emil.