The Amasaman Circuit Court has sentenced a 35-year-old driver to five years' imprisonment with hard labour for stealing a Toyota bus valued at GH¢70,000.

Kwadwo Larbi pleaded guilty to the charge and was convicted accordingly by Justice Enid Marful-Sau, a High Court Judge with additional responsibility at the Circuit Court.

However, he denied conspiring with one Godwin Baah, currently at large.

Presenting the facts, Police Chief Inspector Salifu Nashiru said the complainant, Joseph Addy, a businessman residing at North Kaneshie, owned a white Toyota bus with registration number GT 4403-15, which he had given to a commercial driver, Yaw Mensah.