CRIME & PUNISHMENT

A Circuit Court in Accra has remanded into Police custody a 20-year-old security man for allegedly defiling a 12-year-old girl in a wooden structure at East Legon, Accra. Ebenezer Asare, charged with defilement, pleaded not guilty. Prosecution led by Chief Inspector Kofi Atimbire objected to the grant of bail because …

Dining time at the Bole Senior High School (SHS) in the Savannah region turned chaotic on Wednesday evening. The students went on rampage against their school authorities over what they described as bad meals being served. The students ransacked their dining hall and threw away banku and groundnut soup served …

The article was originally published by the Ghana News Agency on Friday, 16 March, 2007 The Tema Regional Police Command has arrested eight Nigerians including two ladies for internet fraud. Five computers and accessories were found in their rooms. The suspects with ages between 18 and 26 made of five …

An Accra Circuit Court has jailed two persons a total of 36years and four months for robbery. Raymond Duodu, 19, unemployed and Williams Henkel, 22, a TV game operator, denied conspiring to rob Madam Joyce Ofori-Amanfo and Nana Yaa Nartey but were found culpable after trial. Each of them was …

Defence lawyers in the ongoing Volta Secessionists case have clashed with prosecution over the jurisdiction of the court where the accused persons were arraigned. The Prosecution led by ASP Sylvester Asare today amended the charge sheet earlier filed on November 9 which had some 24 accused persons standing trial to …

63-year-old lady, her two daughters and her grandchild of about 6 months have been jailed 3 months each for stealing maize. Narrating their sordid experience, the woman said they did not have money to feed on the said day and that pushed them to move to the farm to take …

A Jilted husband has shot his 40-year-old rival, a year old child, and an eyewitness over a woman. The incident happened Sunday morning at Gomoa Akotsi in the Gomoa East District of the Central Region, according to Bright FM Central Regional Correspondent Eric Amponsah. The injured rival was reportedly dating …

An armed robber who convicted to fifteen years imprisonment in hard labor and kept in police custody while awaiting to be transferred to begin his term has escaped in Wulensi in the Northern Region. The criminal, Mohammed Ibrahim who is 36 years old is said to have escaped by forcing …

The sixth prosecution witness, in the ongoing trial of former COCOBOD boss and two others, was forced to recoil as he finally admitted that a signature on a questionable contract, he initially denied being his, at least on three occasions, is actually his own signature. This was after lawyers for …

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in a joint operation with the Ghana Police Service has apprehended  Mohammed Yousif, acting Managing Director of D&Y Industries Limited, for allegedly using a forged EPA certificate. D&Y Industries Limited, located in Accra, is a dealer in Aluminium Glass Doors and Accessories. The Executive Director …