An Ashaiman Circuit Court has sentenced a 30-year-old unemployed man, Christopher Kwetey, to 10 years' imprisonment for snatching an iPhone 14 from an Australian national at Tsinagbe, a suburb of Ashaiman, and Class FM reported on Wednesday 11 November 2026.
The prosecution told the court that the complainant, a 47-year-old Australian national living at Community 24 in Tema, had travelled to Ashaiman on 3 November 2026 and was recording a video for his YouTube channel on the phone, valued at GH¢5,000, when Kwetey approached him from behind and snatched it. A crowd gathered around the complainant as he tried to recover the phone, allowing Kwetey to escape, the prosecution said.
Officers of the Ashaiman District Police Command, under the District Commander, DSP Orlando Joseph Adzokpa, arrested Kwetey at about 1pm the same day at Tsinagbe and recovered the phone from him, according to the prosecution. The prosecution said he admitted the offence during interrogation.