CRIME & PUNISHMENT

• Police have arrested two suspects for spreading false news • The arrest is connected with viral news of a gun attack on Shatta Wale • This is the second police statement around the Shatta Wale shooting hoax Two persons connected to popular dancehall artiste, Shatta Wale, have been arrested by the Ghana Police Service. …

• Theft allegation hits Ayirebi SHS bursar, driver • PTA chairman of Ayirebi SHS confirms arrest of bursar  • GES, stakeholders tasked to investigate Ayirebi SHS theft claims  The Ayirebi Senior High School bursar, Emmanuel Kweku Frimpong, storekeeper, Ernest Osae Botah, and driver, Dominic Asare, have been accused of stealing …

• Ten persons charged with high treason standing trial for alleged coup • Accused persons include seven officers of the Ghana Armed Forces • Coup masterminded by Dr Fredrick Yao Mac Palm A prosecution witness in the ongoing treason trial of some ten persons including seven officers of the Ghana …

• A bullion van has been attacked in Tarkwa in the Western Region • The van was attacked in front of Ransbet Super Shopping Market • The van was without a police escort A bullion van with more than GH¢107,000 in it has been robbed by two armed robbers in …

• A police constable was assaulted at Nkrumah Circle on Monday • He had sought to mediate in a fake phone sale • It took a police patrol team to rescue him from his aggressors  The Greater Accra Regional Police Command gave an inside story to how an officer was …

Staff Sergeant Awarf Kojo Sule, of the Defence Intelligence Department of the Ghana Armed Forces, has told the High Court in Accra how he suggested that President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo should be kept in “his uncompleted building” at Adenta Housing when captured in an alleged coup. Staff Sargent Awarf …

A 20-year-old man, Michael Banu, has been convicted and sentenced to 12 years imprisonment for defiling an 11-year-old girl. The Kibi Circuit Court presided over by His Honour Peter Oppong-Boahen passed the judgement. The accused pleaded guilty when the charge and facts were read and explained to him. A resident …

• Fuseini Inusah stole GH¢33,000 from his former employer • Accused pleaded guilty but said he stole GH¢7,700 rather • He went back to steal another GH¢87,000 after a court had sentenced him for the first theft A man fined and jailed by the Kpessa District Court for stealing GH¢33,000 …

There was chaos and drama at Shurugwi Female Prison last week after a supposedly female prisoner was discovered to be a male. According to the Masvingo Mirror, at the time of his arrest 22-year-old Praise Mpofu was dressed as a woman. Mpofu is alleged to have been in the business …

A 31-year-old pregnant woman has been stabbed to death by her husband in front of her six-year-old daughter following a scuffle between the two at Nyankyerenease in the Kwadaso Municipality of the Ashanti Region. The deceased, Betty, according to eyewitnesses was stabbed with a knife by her 40-year-old husband, Maxwell. …