CRIME & PUNISHMENT

Taadi missing girls: Judgment day set for March 5

The Sekondi High Court has set March 5, 2021 as judgment day in the murder case involving two Nigerian nationals, Samuel Udoetuk Wills and John Oji, who have been accused of killing the four missing Takoradi Girls. The court presided over by Justice Richard Adjei-Frimpong, fixed the judgment date after counsel for the …

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One arrested at KIA over fake Covid-19 test

The country manager for Asky Airline, Worlanyo Afadzinu, has confirmed that one person has been picked up and handed over to the Police over the fake covid-19 test results handed over a traveller on the Nigerian-bound flight. Speaking on the Morning Starr on Thursday, Mr Afadzinu said investigations are still …

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Human Skull, Bones Found On ‘Kidnapper’s’ Tablet

The Chief State Attorney Prosecuting the case involving the kidnapping and subsequent murder of the four girls in Takoradi revealed yesterday that photographs of a human skull and some bones were found in the gallery of the tablet retrieved from Samuel Udoetuk Wills, the first accused person in the case. …

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Cleaner jailed 15 years for defilement

There was drama at an Accra Circuit Court when a 33-year-old cleaner, who had denied defiling a 10-year-old girl at Sabon Zongo, near Laterbiokoshie, Accra, confessed to the crime. Kofi Amoah, who was to open his defence on Tuesday, admitted having defiled the victim on two occasions adding that he …

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Robbery: Man, 29, shot dead at Dangermu

A 29-year-old motor rider, Kofi Twumasi, has been shot dead in a robbery attack at Sefwi Dangermu in the Juaboso District of the Western North Region. The incident occurred when a gang of four reportedly attacked commuters on the Gyato to Dangermu stretch on Tuesday. Occupants of two Sprinter buses, …

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Another policeman commits suicide inside Sylvio Olympio’s Ridge residence

MyNewsGh.com has gathered that another Policeman at the Police Headquarters in Accra has committed suicide less than 72-hours after a similar incident in the Jomoro Municipality of Western Region. The latest comes days after the Municipal Commander for Half Assini in the Western Region, Superintendent McCarthy Zenge was found dead …

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‘I am fed up in this world’ – Jomoro Police Commander shocks colleagues after killing self

A Ghanaian police officer shocked his colleagues after he reportedly took his own life, local media reported. The officer, Superintendent of Police (SP) Zeprain Zenge committed the suicide act by shooting himself at his Bungalow in Half Assini in the early hours of Saturday, January 30, 2021. A suicide note …

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Senior Police Commander allegedly shoots himself in his room

The Jomoro Municipal Police Commander, in the Western Region, Superintendent McCarthy Zenge, has allegedly committed suicide, MyNewsGh.com reports. Reasons for the act remain sketchy as the deceased left no suicide note to suggest reasons for which he allegedly committed the act by shooting himself in his room with his sidearm. But subordinates …

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Okada riders arrested for not wearing nose masks

Four motor riders were on Thursday arrested by the Police at Ashaiman, in Accra, for failing to wear nose masks. After hours of interrogation, the four were forced by the police to wear the masks and cautioned to adhere to the COVID-19 safety protocols. A police source told GNA that personnel were …

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Driver arrested for selling weed at a cemetery

A 27-year-old driver has been remanded into prison custody by the Nkawie Circuit Court for selling and smoking some substances suspected to be Indian hemp at a cemetery. Godfred Gyamfi was arrested at the Abuakwa-Maakro cemetery during Police operations in some communities in the Atwima-Nwabiagya South Municipality to clamp down …

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