Two teachers convicted of forging Judicial Service official receipts have each received a six-year prison sentence from an Accra Circuit Court. Lordfred Heward Mills, the mastermind, was sentenced in absentia, while Lawrence Ansu Asante was taken into custody by the police. Presided over by Afia Owusua Appiah, the court found them guilty of conspiring to alter documents.
The prosecution, led by Inspector Wisdom Alorwu, revealed that Eric Ansah Agyei, a pastor residing in Aburi, filed the complaint. Mills, residing in Bubuashie, and Asante from James Town, were sureties in the case of Republic vs. Jeffery Wilson Ofori. In June 2021, Agyei entrusted the accused, now convicts, with GHC3,500 to be paid on behalf of Ofori, an accused in a pending case before Circuit Court 4.
The convicts schemed to forge an official Judicial Service receipt, failing to remit the money to the court. They enlisted Boakye Boateng’s help to obtain forged Judicial Service receipts. Subsequently, they submitted a receipt with number 19/0263336 dated June 11, 2021, and a face value of GHC3,500 to the prosecutor, ASP Rita Asaah.
On November 23, 2021, the court rejected the receipt, leading to the convicts’ arrest. They confessed to the offense during caution statements, disclosing that Boakye Boateng, now at large, provided the forged receipts for a fee of GHC500. The remaining GHC3,000 was divided between the convicts.
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