TWO GHANAIANS SMUGGLED #20,000 WORTH OF CANNABIS I

TWO GHANAIANS SMUGGLED #20,000 WORTH OF CANNABIS INTO
BRITAIN – BY HIDING IT IN WALKING STICKS AND SPEARS, A COURT
HEARD ON TUESDAY.

THE ALLEGED SMUGGLERS SENT THE WALKING STICKS TO FRIENDS
WHO WERE UNAWARE THEY CONTAINED DRUGS UNTIL CUSTOMS OFFICERS TOLD

THEM OF THE PLAN, IT WAS SAID.

SAMUEL YEBOAH AND HIS WIFE AGNES SASU THEN FLEW TO BRITAIN TO

COLLECT THE DRUGS BUT WERE MET BY WAITING OFFICERS AT THE HOME OF

FRIENDS MR AND MRS ASANTE.

THE PLAN WAS FOILED WHEN A CUSTOMS OFFICER AT MOUNT PLEASANT

POST OFFICE, FARRINGDON ROAD, INTERCEPTED ONE OF THE PARCELS AND

EXAMINED IT.

‘HE WAS ABLE TO DISCOVER WITHOUT OPENING THE PACKAGE THAT THE

WALKING STICKS CONTAINED CANNABIS,’ SAID MR DAVID LEDERMAN ,

PROSECUTING AT SOUTHWARK CROWN COURT.

A SECOND PACKAGE WAS ALSO INTERCEPTED BEARING A SOUTH LONDON

ADDRESS, ADDED COUNSEL.

OFFICERS WENT TO THE ASANTE’S HOME IN COLOGNE ROAD, CLAPHAM,

AND ARRESTED THEM.

BUT THEY DENIED INVOLVMENT AND AGREED TO HELP

DETECTIVES.

‘THE ASANTE’S RECEIVED A LETTER FROM SASU SAYING THEY WERE

COMING TO LONDON ON MARCH 11,’ SAID MR LEDERMAN.

‘WHEN THEY

ARRIVED AT THE HOUSE THEY WERE ARRESTED.

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WHEN YEBOAH WAS ARRESTED HE ALLEGEDLY TOLD OFFICERS: ‘I
POSTED NOTHING.

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SASU DENIED HER INVOLVEMENT BUT SAID SHE WAS ASKED BY A
MAN TO SEND THE PARCELS FROM GHANA.

AND HER HUSBAND TOLD OFFICERS HE HAD COME TO ENGLAND BECAUSE
HIS WIFE WANTED A HOLIDAY.

‘WHEN ASKED IF HE EXPECTED ANYTHING TO BE IN THE HOUSE
FOR HIM YEBOAH REPLIED ”NO”,’ SAID COUNSEL.

YEBOAH, 43, A GHANA AIRWAYS EMPLOYEE AND SASU, 35, A
SECRETARY, WHO BOTH LIVE IN GHANA, DENY BEING KNOWINGLY CONCERNED IN

THE IMPORTATION OF CANNABIS ON MARCH 3 THIS YEAR.

A SECOND MAN, ERIC AMAKA, 34, A STUDENT, OF CROSSMAN
HOUSE, NEW PARK ROAD, BRIXTON, HAS PLEADED GUILTY TO CONSPIRING
TO IMPORT THE DRUG ON JANUARY 1 THIS YEAR.

HE WILL BE SENTENCED

LATER.

THE TRIAL CONTINUES.

ENDS.

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