CRIME & PUNISHMENT

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 …

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, …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

One suspected robber has been shot dead along the Achimota forest stretch after he succeeded in attacking and snatching two phones from two pedestrians and ran into the bush. On Wednesday, 27 January 2021 at about 9pm, the suspect now deceased armed with knife emerged from the Achimota Forest Reserve …

A taxi driver has been found dead at Korle – Nkwata a suburb of New Juaben South Municipality of the Eastern Region. He was found tied with a rope in the plantain farm near Anglican Basic School at Korle -Nkwanta community. A resident assumed that the deceased taxi driver might …

A suspected highway robber was gunned down during a shoot out in Ghana’s capital Accra on Wednesday morning, the police has said in a briefing. The special operation at a guest house on the Spintex road at about 11:30 am led to the death of Blessing Stephen 38, a notorious …