CRIME & PUNISHMENT

A suspected cable thief has been electrocuted at Tema Community 4. The suspect who was found hanging this dawn by residents in a mini telecommunication transformer . Clad in a ‘tie and dye’ T-shirt with a blue trouser and a polythene bag containing some tools, the suspect who is yet …

The Greater Accra Regional Police Command has picked up four persons in connection with the suspected murder of University of Ghana Law lecturer, Professor Emmanuel Yaw Benneh. The four who are reportedly being interrogated by the police are domestic workers at the deceased’s residence at Adjirigano in Accra. According to …

A teenage guest has reportedly stabbed a young man, Omeika Josiah, to death at his birthday party at Amini Awo village in Odeda Local Government Area of Ogun state, Nigeria. The suspect identified as Sunday Philip,  an apprentice mechanic, arrived the party uninvited and was served a bottle of beer …

The Kpando Police have arrested Ebenezer Jomo, a 24-year-old Okada Rider, who resides at Aloyi, a suburb of Kpando, for transacting business with fake currency at Gabi. Police Detective Sergeant, Mr Agyin Osei, Head of the Kpando Criminal Investigations Department (CID), told the Ghana News Agency (GNA) that on September, …

The Cape Coast District Court has remanded into police custody for two weeks one Lukman Amusah and his wife whose 13-year-old son jumped from the 3rd floor of a storey building to death at Ayekoo Ayekoo, a suburb of Cape Coast while trying to escape beatings from his father. The …

The police in Suntreso have launched a manhunt for criminals who attacked and robbed a Kumawood actor and his family at Aburaso in the Kwadaso Municipality. Andrew Ntul Mensah, known in Kumawood as “Scorpion”, sustained gunshot wounds during the attack in his house and is receiving medical care at a …

It has come to light that Prof Emmanuel Yaw Benneh, a law lecturer at the University of Ghana Law School who got killed on Thursday in his mansion at Adjirigano, East Legon, Accra, was tied up by his killers and shot multiple times. Yaw Benneh, who was on post retirement …

One person has died while two others, including a police officer, have been wounded following a daylight robbery attack on the Manso–Kumasi road in the Ashanti Region. The deceased has only been identified as Attakorah, 35, who worked as a cashier with a bank; though the police did not provide the name …

One of Kumasi’s most wanted fugitives who has been on the run for several months has been arrested over the brutal murder of Elijah Kenja, a former staff of the Volta River Authority (VRA). Jamal Issaka Mohammed, 27, who was in possession of leaves suspected to be Indian hemp at …

Notorious armed robbers terrorising residents in communities around Begoro in the Fanteakwa North District of the Eastern Region on Thursday evening stormed Abuoso Community amidst firing of gunshots to rob the largest provision shop in the community. The three masked robbery gang invaded “Abuoso Melcom” shop around 7:00 pm in …