CRIME & PUNISHMENT

• 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. …

Dozens of Qnet Agents and hundreds of recruits have been arrested by Police in Koforidua. The special operation carried out by Police and Ambulance service Personnel from the Counter-Terrorism and Concentration Camp located in Huhunya on Friday targeted places where Qnet agents operate and target their victims. The suspects include …

Police at Suame in the Ashanti Region are on a manhunt for a suspect who allegedly stabbed his friend to death on Wednesday, October 13. The 23-year-old victim, Ebenezer Asare, died shortly after he was rushed to the hospital following the incident. Police say they have begun investigations into the …