By William Yaw Owusu
Tuesday, 19 June 2007
Three Ghanaians resident in Europe were yesterday sentenced by the Greater Accra Regional Tribunal to a total of 34 years in jail for attempting to export cocaine.
Joseph Arthur Aggrey, 46, resident in Spain was sentenced to 14 years in hard labour while Albert Acquah also resident in Spain and Emmanuel Asante, in Holland, were given 10 years each in hard labour.
Aggrey swallowed 85 pellets of cocaine weighing 955.45 grammes while Asante had 80 pellets weighing 786.87 grammes in his stomach.
Acquah, in addition to swallowing 29 pellets weighing 406.86 grammes and inserted two-egg-size of the drug in his anus.
Arthur had pleaded not guilty to two counts of attempted importation of narcotic drugs without lawful authority and possession of narcotic drugs without lawful authority.
Acquah and Asante who were also charged with the same offence pleaded guilty on their first appearance.
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