CRIME & PUNISHMENT

The Anti-Armed Robbery squad deployed to the Eastern region by the Acting Inspector General of Police (IGP) Dr. George Akuffo Dampare have been attacked by highway robbers on Akyem Ettukrom to Bunso road in the Eastern region. The robbers allegedly wielding AK47 were on the road Tuesday, August 17, 2021, …

Fourteen suspects linked to a number of alleged robberies and other crimes have been arrested across the country. In the Greater Accra region, one Ebenezer Ahuma Djietror has been arrested for allegedly robbing and harming two persons at gunpoint on the streets on 11th August 2021. He has been remanded …

Police in the Eastern Region are on a manhunt for some armed robbers who shot into a police vehicle that was transporting anti-robbery officers to various checkpoints at Ettukrom near Bunso. The armed robbers who were reportedly getting ready to lay ambush at Ettukrom to rob unsuspecting victims on Wednesday, …

•The two boys have pleaded guilty to murdering their friend for rituals •One of them has detailed the events that led to the killing of their friend •He revealed that the deceased was buried whiles alive The ongoing trial of the two Kasoa teenagers who allegedly murdered their young friend …

The first accused person in the case of the Kasoa ritual murder has made a startling revelation that apart from killing 10-year-old Ishmael Mensah Abdullah, they have also killed a pregnant woman some time past. Though he did not give the exact date to the court, the 15-year-old said this …

The Koforidua Circuit Court “B” Presided by Her Honour Mercy Addei Kotei has sentenced a 54-year-old businessman to a jail term of 9 years and five months for throwing acid on his 22-year-old ex-girlfriend and her mother at Awukugua-Akuapem in the Okere District in Eastern region. The convict, Nana Yaw …

A gang of armed robbers on Saturday attacked a fuel filling station at Asenema, a suburb of Adukrom in the Eastern Region. According to sources, the robbers made away with an amount of ¢1,200 and mobile phones. The armed men, numbering about three, attacked a female attendant and a private …

A 16-year-old girl has allegedly been raped and killed at Bodomase in the Sekyere Kumawu District of the Ashanti region.   The incident occurred today, Saturday, 14 August 2021. A man who happened to have seen the body of the victim, Mr Kwadwo Obeng, told Kumasi FM’s Elisha Adarkwah that …

The Member of Parliament for Juaboso, Kwabena Mintah Akandoh has filed a defamatory suit against Kwame Baffoe Abronye, the Bono Regional Chairman of the New Patriotic Party and Kencity Media over some claims Abronye allegedly made against him regarding the Sputnik V saga. In a suit sighted by GhanaWeb, Mintah Akandoh …

Police in the Ashanti Region have commenced investigations into the death of a suspected thief at Manso Atwere in the Amansie West District of the Ashanti Region after he was beaten by a mob. The victim’s alleged accomplice was also beaten by the mob and has been hospitalized. The two …