Cephas Avortre, a rubber tapper, who defiled a 14-year-old pupil, has been sentenced to 25 years' im­prisonment in hard labour by the Tarkwa Circuit Court. Avotre, 20, pleaded guilty to the charge of defilement and was convicted on his own plea. Superintendent of Police, Ju­liana Essel-Dadzie, prosecuting, told the court, presided over by Mrs Hathia Ama Manu, that the complainant was a farmer and the victim's grandfather. The court heard that the com­plainant, convict, victim and her parents lived in the same town at Insu-Siding, in the Prestea Huni-Valley Municipality, but in different houses. Sup Essel-Dadzie said the girl left home to buy Indomie noodles in town as the parents had travelled.