CRIME & PUNISHMENT

Commissioner of Police (COP) Isaac Ken Yeboah, Director General, Criminal Investigations Department (CID), says officers who indulge in criminal activities would be prosecuted. “No officer who commits a criminal act would be spared,” COP Yeboah told a press conference in Accra on Friday to throw light on the arrest of …

There is a saying that goes like “Every day for the thief, one day for master’ and that can be said to be the case of a young man who refused to work with his hands but rather uses the shortcut by stealing from people who have worked hard to …

Police have arrested 22 persons in connection with the recent attack on the Ho STC yard by persons suspected to be members of the Western Togoland secessionist groups. The suspects were arrested while having a secret meeting at a Hotel in Ho. The Commanding Officer of 66 Artillery Regiment said …

A level 200 student of the University of Ghana, Legon, Abdul Hafiz has been stabbed to death at Atuahene in the Bono Region by an unknown assailant. The deceased who resides with the family at Ntotroso in Ahafo Region aged 23 and reads BA in Business Administration met his death …

The North East Police Command has arrested the Nalerigu Station Officer for facilitating the illegal acquisition of a gun license for a suspected thief on trial at the Nalerigu District Court in the North East Region. Inspector Felix Gbekle’s case is under investigation but preliminary findings show that he used …

A cleaner at the residence of the late Prof. Yaw Benneh has confessed of having a hand in the professor’s murder, the State prosecutors have said. The state has however dropped charges against three others as two other people have been fingered as the cleaner’s accomplices. One of the said …

Seven young men, who were among 31 alleged secessionists picked up by the police in the Volta Region, broke down in tears after an Accra Circuit Court remanded them into custody at the Bureau of National Investigations (BNI). The accused persons have been jointly charged with conspiracy to commit crime, …

A Chinese court has sentenced a nursery teacher to death for poisoning 25 children, one of whom died. Wang Yun was arrested last year after children at a kindergarten in Jiaozuo city were rushed to hospital after eating their morning porridge. The court said she put sodium nitrite in the …

A couple is facing charges after the woman allegedly dipped the hands of an 11-year-old girl in hot water months ago and failed to seek medical help for her. The victim is receiving treatment at the Ho government hospital with severe burns to both hands following the dastardly act by …

A husband has hit a man dead with a stick after he caught him having sex with his wife inside their marital home on Sunday night. A man believed to be in his late 20s, was having sex with Nowerina Nassozi, 32, when the woman’s husband, Charles Nkubi, 50, sneaked …