Driver’s mate jailed eight years

A 21-year-old driver’s mate has been sentenced to eight years imprisonment by an Accra Circuit Court for having sex with a 13-year-old girl in two different guest houses in Accra. Absalon Toboase, charged with two counts of defilement, pleaded not guilty. The court presided over by Christina Cann at the end of the trial found him guilty. The court said in sentencing Toboase, it considered the intrinsic seriousness and the gravity of the offence. According to the court, it also considered the fact that the accused person had had no brush with the law. The prosecution led by Superintendent of…