An Accra Circuit Court has condemned a police to 12 years imprisonment for helping an ex-convict Harold Davies Johnson to travel abroad without serving his prison term at the Nsawam Prisons.
This was after Detective Lance Corporal Kwame Adu Asabereh was found guilty by the court at the end of the trial .
The police was said to have allowed himself to be corrupted by Johnson, an ex-convict, to help him to travel abroad and circumvent serving his prison term.
He was accused of forgery of an official record, abetment of wrongdoing, and corruption by a public official.
The facts of the prosecution led by Assistant Superintendent of Police Emmanuel Nyamekye before the court presided by Patricia Amponsah are that Asabereh was a police stationed at the Criminal Investigation Department of the Ghana Police Service .
The prosecution said in 2019, an instance of duping by false pretenses involving Harold Davies Johnson, otherwise known as Emmanuel Snowden, an British national, reported by Dr Shadrack Asare, was referred to Asabereh for investigation.
It said after investigation, Asabereh was told to charge and summon Johnson on the charge of swindling by false pretenses.
Johnson was, hence, put before the court Presided by Naa Adjeley Quaison.
Johnson conceded to the charge and was condemned to three years imprisonment.
The prosecution said Johnson was given over to Asabereh, the case official, to be conveyed to Nsawam Medium Prison.
Shockingly, the prosecution noted , Asabereh failed to send Johnson to Nsawam and sent him to his (Asabereh’s) home instead at Sapieman where he stayed for quite a while.
The prosecution said investigation additionally showed that Johnson vowed to help Asabereh to travel abroad and in view of that, Asabereh delivered Johnson’s passport to him and he travelled to the United Kingdom without serving his sentence .
The prosecution said Asabereh forged the Police Removal of Prisoner Book to indicate that Johnson had been sent and received by prison authorities at Nsawam.
The prosecution indicated when Asabereh was arrested , he conceded the offense.