CRIME & PUNISHMENT

A Police officer stationed at the Nima Police Station, Inspector Abednego Bortier and two others including a tutor have been remanded into police custody for one week by the Circuit Court in Accra. They are said to have succeeded in robbing their Indian victims of huge sums of monies but …

Eight individuals have been apprehended and presented before an Accra Circuit Court in connection with an alleged robbery at a lawyer’s residence in the Airport Residential area of Accra. Thechronicle.com.gh reports that the incident involved the theft of US$114,500, £800, GH¢50,000, and €3,000 from a trunk located inside the lawyer’s …

The Ejisu District Police Command of the Ghana Police Service has given a female police officer at the Kwaso Police Station, Corporal Ernestina Oteng Agyeman, ten days to produce a prisoner, Kofi Toku, who escaped while under her care at the Kwaso Police Station on July 20, 2023. According to …

A 20-year-old prostitute identified as Mercy Chisiyo from Lion’s Den, Chinhoyi, has been arraigned in court for sleeping with an underage boy.   New Zimbabwe reported that Mercy Chisiyo was apprehended by the authorities after being accused of engaging in intercourse with an underage boy.   The state’s case, led by prosecutor …

An Accra High Court has imposed a cost of GH¢6,000 on Deborah Sayram Adablah, a former National Service person, after striking out the name of First Atlantic Bank from her case. Ms. Adablah had taken Ernest Kwasi Nimako, a former Chief Finance Officer at First Atlantic Bank, to court, alleging …

A man known to be in his late 30s has butchered his girlfriend, Gifty, a 28-year-old over a misunderstanding. Sources claim that although neither of them is from Dunkwa-on-Offin, they had fallen out and came to the town, where the man killed the woman. The man has since been arrested …

A 22-year-old lady, Linda Agyiri has been stabbed by her estranged boyfriend at Esan near Assin Sienkyem in the Assin North District of the Central Region. This is after she threated to divorce him over drug abuse. The suspect, Paul Tamakloe popularly known as Sean Paul is said to have …

A suspect motorbike thief has been lynched at Obuotumpan a community near Nyamekrom in Eastern Region. Information gathered by Starr News indicates that, somewhere in May 2023, an unregistered motorbike belonging to Samuel Awuku alias Nana Yaw Abodee was stolen but he failed to report to police. However, came across …

Two individuals have reportedly been burnt to death in Assin Bereku, a town in the Assin North constituency of the Central region. According to a report filed by citinewsroom.com, the incident occurred on Thursday, July 13, 2023, when unknown assailants entered the room of a 63-year-old woman and inflicted cutlass …

A policeman who was detailed to a checkpoint at the Bia-Tano Forest has been shot dead by unknown assailants, MyNewsGh.com reports. The lifeless body of Sergeant Titus Avoka Azasiyande in a pool of blood was discovered in the early hours of Thursday, July 13, 2023. His service rifle number 158468 …