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Court Acquits Atta Ayi’s Alleged Accomplice After Over 20 Years in Prison – GhArticles.com The Court of Appeal has acquitted and discharged Yaw Asante Agyekum, an alleged accomplice of notorious armed robber Ataa Ayi, after spending more than 20 years behind bars for a crime he has now been cleared of. Agyekum, a mechanic, was sentenced to 35 years in prison in December 2002 at the age of 24 for…

Those aren’t father and son clothes hanging up to dry. The yellow cotton shirt and the navy blue cashmere sweater belong to my friend Simon. 

The sweater, or ‘jumper’ as he calls it, was a full-size garment made to fit British-born Simon, who has a broad chest and shoulders. Unfortunately, his well-meaning ayi, or cleaning lady, threw this one into the wash. The result? A soft, sharp-looking sweater knit to fit a man who stands at about 5′11″ shrank right down to a  tot-sized disaster.

Not only did it shrink, but the fibers were compressed so tightly together that the material itself now feels like a very rough grade of thick felt. 

To add insult to fashion injury, a few weeks later the ayi grabbed what she thought were dirty clothes and ended up washing two more cashmere sweaters.