Mother of 9 Sentenced To 11 Years Imprisonment For Selling Indian Hemp Drink

Reported by Mz Pat

A mother of nine and drinking bar operator
yesterday broke down in tears when the Accra
Circuit Court sentenced her to 11
years with hard labour for selling alcohol mixed
with Indian hemp to the public.
Ama Forson, who stood quietly in the dock
while her sentence was being read, started
crying uncontrollably immediately the Judge,
Mr Aboagye Tandoh, pronounced the number
of years she was to spend in incarceration.
Her tears were such that a police officer on
duty in the courtroom had to tell her to control
herself because she was disturbing the court.
The convict was charged with unlawfully
possessing narcotic drugs.
She pleaded not guilty to the charge and in her
defence denied having knowledge of the drugs.
Sentence
The court, however, in its sentence, said the
convict, apart from having custody of the
drugs, knew the drugs were Indian hemp.
“I have examined the evidence and have
concluded that the drugs found on the
accused person’s premises indeed belonged to
her. She cannot, therefore, deny knowledge of
it,’’ the judge said.
Facts
The facts of the case were that on September
29, 2015, the New Weija Police arrested the
convict in a swoop at Bortianor in the Ga
Central Municipality. The police, during their
search on her premises, retrieved quantities of
dried leaves suspected to be Indian hemp from
her black ladies’ handbag.
The search also revealed a wine bottle
containing dried leaves suspected to be Indian
hemp and liquid..