BRITTISH TO BE DEPORTED

Story: Mary Mensah

THE 63-year-old British photographer who was arrested for sodomising a 19-year-old Ghanaian is to be deported after payment of fines imposed on him by an Accra circuit court.
The Deputy Director-General of the Criminal Investigations Department of the Ghana Police Service, ACOP Ken Yeboah, told the Daily Graphic that in order that John Ross Macleod would not return to the country, the police had sought a deportation order from the court to deport him and this was eventually granted.
Macleod and Emmanuel Adda who pleaded guilty to unnatural canal knowledge were both fined ¢6 million each, or in default would serve six months imprisonment.
Macleod paid the fine of ¢12 million for both of them and an additional ¢3 million for possessing obscene pictures.
He said when the two made first appearance in court, they were charged with two counts of unnatural canal knowledge of each other and possession of obscene pictures.
He said they pleaded guilty to the first count of unnatural canal knowledge and were convicted on their own guilty plea to ¢6 million each or in default serve six months imprisonment.
Mr Yeboah said Macleod pleaded not guilty to possessing obscene pictures and was granted a ¢50-million bail with three sureties, but he later changed the second plea to guilty and was thus fined ¢3 million.
Macloed, who was arrested at the Kotoka International Airport while going through departure formalities, had in his possession CDs and nude pictures of himself and Adda, which he had concealed in a compartment of his suitcase.
The two established an online relationship and after exchanging mails, Macloed proposed love to the boy and on October 2, 2007, he arrived in the country for a visit during which period he sodomised Adda and took pictures of their acts.