Court defers sentence of Jamaican Musician

A Jamaican Musician residing at Kokrobite in Accra, Gregory Blake Ellary, will on Monday the 7th of September, be sentenced  on a charge of possessing  firearm without authority by an Accra Circuit Court. 

Blake was convicted on his own plea of guilty. 

He however denied a second charge of threat of death. 

The Court presided over by Aboagye Tandoh deferred sentencing to Monday, when his trial on the charge of threat will begin. 

According to the facts presented by DSP Kwaku Bempah, about a month ago, Blake bought a BMW motor bike from one Malik Abed, an auto mechanic. 

Two weeks after the purchase, he noticed a mechanical fault on the engine and returned the bike to the seller for repairs. 

DSP Bempah said the two agreed to share the cost of repairs. 

On August 25, the accused person went to collect his motor bike at Caprice. 

He was to pay GH¢500.00 being half the cost of the repaired engine. 

The accused person decided to go for a test ride and the seller instructed one of his workers, Maxwell Odame, who is the complainant in the case to go with Blake. 

They rode to North Kaneshie where the accused person is alleged to have stopped on a section of the road and asked Odame to run for his life. 

His threat was not taken seriously until he pulled out a foreign revolver loaded with live ammunition. 

Blake is said to have corked the pistol and pointed at the complainant with the intention of getting away with the bike. 

The complainant defied the threats and engaged Blake in a struggle over the motor bike attracting a witness to the scene. 

The two were then escorted to the Darkuman Police Station.

GBC