CRIME & PUNISHMENT

An 18-year old unemployed, Kwaku Mensah was on Thursday August 13, 2020 sentenced to 18 years imprisonment by Bibiani Circuit Court in the Western North Region for defiling a four-year-old girl. Kwaku Mensah who lives at Dabiasem, a suburb of Dadeaso in the Western North Region, pleaded guilty to the …

Twenty five (25) year old man Kwaku Johnson has killed an eighty (80) year old woman Eno Pokuaa with a building block at Domenase near Tanoso in the Kwadaso Municipality of the  Ashanti Region. Kwaku Johnson is also in a critical condition when he stabbed himself in a suicide attempt …

Armed robbers have shot dead the Head Pastor of the Ejisu branch of the Jehovah Nisi Evangelical Ministry in Kumasi. The incident happened in the early of hours of Wednesday, August 12, 2020 at his residence at Anyinam Kegyase near Santasi in Kumasi, Ashanti region. Pastor Maxwell Attakorah, 44, was …

A vlogger has recounted a harrowing robbery attack which forced him to jump over the Dzorwulu overhead in Accra.  The jump, according to the victim, Kelvin Okyere cost him eight of his teeth on that fateful night. Narrating his ordeal to Zionfelix in an interview, the young man said the …

The 83-year-old man kidnapped in the Bunkprugu/Nakpanduri district has escaped from captivity, his family has confirmed to JoyNews. According to the family, the man fled from his captives on Tuesday. The victim, KonYan Yariban, was taken hostage last week on witchcraft allegation by a group of people. They had accused …

A 16-year-old student of the Osei Kyeretwie Senior High School in Kumasi has allegedly committed suicide at Asonomaso, in the Kwabre East Municipality. Kwabena Prince was found hanging behind the kitchen of his family house on Wednesday dawn. He was said to have been rebuked by his mother for engaging …

A 35-year-old woman, Eunice Brobbey, has been arrested for abandoning her newborn baby on a refuse dump in Bediako, a town in the Bono Region. A woman, who went to dump refuse at the site, rescued the baby. The infant was later sent to the palace of the town’s queen-mother …

Three traditional priests who allegedly caused the death of Edward Quartey Papafio, a 64-year-old bio-Chemist at Adeiso in the Eastern Region, have appeared before the Kaneshie District Court. Christian Awoe Gamelie aka Power One, 40, Famous Adukonu aka Scorpion, 37, and Yaw Azamate, 27, are being held on the charges …

A man believed to be about 40 years has been murdered and dumped in a lake at Fiifi Prat a suburb of Gomoa Nyanyano in the Gomoa East District of the Central Region. Information suggests the unidentified man was killed somewhere and dumped in the lake. In an interview with …

The Circuit Court in Accra presided over by Mr Emmanuel Essandoh has remanded a 30–year-old farmer who attempted to snatch an AK47 raffle from a police woman to prisons custody. Seyram Tony Adonu, who pleaded not guilty to two charges of attempted robbery and failing to comply with restriction orders …