The Court of Appeal has set June 5, 2025, to deliver judgment on one of the convicted accomplices of notorious criminal Ataa Ayi, who has appealed his 35-year sentence.
The convict, Yaw Asante Agyekum, who was sentenced by an Accra High Court in December 2002, has already served 23 years of the 35-year sentence.
The convict, who did not have a lawyer at the time of his conviction, was charged with conspiracy to commit armed robbery.
It is the case of his lawyer, George Bernard Shaw, that there was no evidence linking his client to the many robberies carried out by Ataa Ayi.
Addressing journalists after court proceedings on Monday, George Bernard Shaw further argued that the only link prosecutors could draw between Ataa Ayi and his client was the discovery of the notorious criminal’s phone numbers on the mobile phone of the mechanic.
This, he believes, was unfair, and he is rigorously pushing for the court to overturn the ruling.
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