CRIME & PUNISHMENT

A Kenyan man has been sentenced to life imprisonment after he was found guilty of defiling a minor. Lameck Ochieng was handed his sentence after the 11-year-old victim who happens to be his niece positively identified him in court. He reportedly committed the heinous act in Kameji area in Rongo sub-county …

A 35 year old woman has been arrested for alleged child trafficking at Biriwa in the Mfantseman Municipality of the Central Region. Information gathered by Kasapa News Yaw Boagyan indicates that the suspect believed to be a sex worker who lives in Accra went to Bankyea in the Secondi Takoradi …

A 26-year-old man, Murtala Mohammed, who scaled the wall into the house of his neighbour, stole a water pump and started running away from the crime scene when an alarm was raised by a neighbour, unknowingly headed towards a nearby police barracks where he was arrested. When he was put before …

A Fulani herdsman is in the grips of Damongo police in the Savannah Regional capital for inflicting cutlass wounds on a farmer. The suspect assaulted the 23-year-old farmer, identified as Moro Abass, after the victim confronted him for allowing his cattle invade and graze on his farm. This led to …

A man who was arrested at the Kotoka International Airport (KIA) after confessing to the Narcotics Control Commission officers of swallowing pellets of Narcotics drugs has been sentenced to 10 years in prison. In addition to the custodial sentence, Kwadwo Ofosu, who changed his earlier not-guilty plea to guilty, will …

The six accused, who were arrested in connection with the killing of a soldier, Imoro Sherrif, in Ashaiman, in the Greater Accra Region, have once again been remanded into police custody. This was when they appeared before the Ashaiman Circuit Court yesterday, during pre-trial proceedings, charged with stealing, robbery and …

A Nigerian man who has been accused of allegedly raping a 56-year-old bed-ridden stroke patient has been remanded by an Iyaganku Chief Magistrates’ Court in Inadan, the country’s Oyo state. The suspect, Bello Jamiu will remain in the custody of Agodi Correctional Centre until May 16 when the case will …

The Assin Fosu Magistrate Court, presided by Abdul Majid Illiasu, has remanded a 36-year-old spiritualist, Iddi Olaxy Mohammed, affectionately called Money God, into police custody, for allegedly chewing the finger of a labourer of a road construction firm in Assin Fosu. According to the prosecution, Chief Inspector Gilbert Ayongo, the …

Sixteen persons aged between 12 and 20 years have been found kidnapped in a single room at Ankaful Zongo in the Cape Coast Metropolitan Assembly in the Central Region. The victims are believed not to be Ghanaians as they are unable to speak any local language. They are suspected to …

The Criminal Division of the High Court in Accra presided over by Justice Mary Maame Ekue Yanzuh, has sentenced five Western Togoland secessionists who were arrested by the police in September 2020 after they blocked the Aveyime road from Accra with sand and attacked the Aveyime and Mepe Police, Stations …