Tema, Sept. 2, GNA - A crowd at a Tema Community Court on Monday was stunned when minutes before sentence was to be passed on an accused person for stealing 10 fowls, one of the fowls, which were brought to court as exhibits, dropped dead.

Notwithstanding, the Presiding Magistrate, Mrs Florence Ninepence pronounced a six-month jail term on the accused, Kwaku Amanor, unemployed.

Amanor pleaded guilty to unlawful entry and stealing. In her ruling, the Magistrate explained that she was dealing leniently with the accused because all the 10 stolen fowls were retrieved soon after the theft, which occurred last Saturday dawn.

Prosecuting, Police Inspector Joseph Gakpetor told the court that at about 0100 hours of August 30, Amanor, a former employee of Farm Vivian, near Lashibi, entered the farm and stole 10 of the fowls. He said Mr Patrick Tetteh, a worker raised the alarm and he was arrested and the fowls retrieved from him.