An Accra Circuit Court has sentenced a labourer to 24 months imprisonment for stealing an unregistered Peugeot motorbike valued at GH¢20,000 from his neighbour.
Thomas Agbeko, who pleaded guilty, admitted to breaking the lock of a warehouse valued at GH¢1,000, unlawfully entering, and making away with the motorbike.
The Court, presided over by Mrs Susana Eduful, convicted him on three counts: causing unlawful damage, unlawful entry and stealing.
The sentences are to run concurrently.
In addition to the custodial sentence, Agbeko was ordered to pay GH¢20,000 to the complainant by October 31, 2025, as compensation for the stolen motorbike.
Presenting the facts, Police Chief Inspector Ebenezer Teye-Okuffo told the Court that the complainant, Madam Betty Agyeman, a trader residing at Kanda, had imported secondhanded goods from Italy in August 2024.
She engaged Agbeko and her houseboy to offload the items into her warehouse.
Agbeko was later asked to weed around the premises and to push an unregistered Peugeot motorbike with chassis number PJL000215J4892002 into the warehouse.
On August 10, 2025, at about 1400 hours, Agbeko allegedly informed a friend, who later became a witness, that he intended to steal the motorbike and needed help to cut and join the wires to start it.
The witness declined and reported the conversation to another friend, who also discouraged the act.
On August 18, 2025, the complainant reported the theft, and Agbeko was arrested.
Though he initially denied the offence, he later confessed during interrogation in the presence of witnesses, admitting to stealing the motorbike with Solomon.
Agbeko led police to Agbogbloshie-Zongo Junction, claiming he had taken the motorbike there to sell, but refused to identify the buyer.
Following investigations, he was charged and prosecuted.
The Court has since ordered the release of the recovered motorbike for safekeeping.