CRIME & PUNISHMENT

A Lupane villager who took advantage of and raped a mentally challenged teenage girl with whom he was herding cattle, has been jailed for 16 years. Hwange regional magistrate Collet Ncube said Jonathan Sibanda, aged 37, of Mateteni village under Chief Mabhikwa took advantage of the girl’s condition when he …

One of the suspects who allegedly played a role in the lynching of a 90-year-old woman at Kafaba has been remanded by the Bole Magistrate Court. In her first appearance presided over by Prince Cudjo, the suspected was asked to reappear on August 20, 2020. Latifa Bumaye, 25, was arrested …

Two members of the Nigerian Community in Buduburam, Liberia Camp, in the Central Region have been stabbed to death. The two angrily attacked another with cutlasses and machetes and led to injuries to three yet-to-be-identified guys who were rushed to a nearby hospital for treatment. Two of them were pronounced …

The Upper West Regional Police Command is on a manhunt for a gang of men who allegedly beat up a teacher and stripped him naked in public after accusing him of sleeping with a married woman in Wa. In a statement issued and signed by the Regional Police Public Relations …

It is reported that two men who allegedly committed suicide by hanging committed the act out of depression. The police said one of the deceased persons had a history of mental illness while the other way suspected to be depressed. The bodies of Roy Kwasi Wilson, 41, and Samuel Ofori …

Two people, believed to be Nigerians, have been stabbed to death in a cutlass fight between two factions at Gomoa Buduburam in the Gomoa East District of the Central region. The incident, according to reports, happened at a place called Golden Gate. The cause is still unknown but information gathered …

A 27-year-old man has been arrested for allegedly being behind the murder of KwaZulu-Natal taxi association chairperson Dan Mdabe, police said on Sunday. Mdabe was shot dead on the morning of April 23 on Intake Road in Mariannhill. Police said at the time that the suspects fled the scene in …

A 30-old-man who allegedly attempted disarming a policewoman of her gun has been arrested by the police in Accra. Seyram Tony Adonu is in the custody of the police assisting in investigations, Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) Effia Tenge, Accra Regional Public Relations Officer (PRO), disclosed this to the Ghanaian …

A 32-year-old woman is in the grips of the police for mercilessly assaulting her 13-years-old son with a spatula till he collapsed at Gomoa Fetteh Kakraba in the Central Region. The woman’s action comes after a supposed man of God pronounced the boy a wizard. Madam Juliana Arthur reports say …

A 49-year-old man, Eric Richard Ashie has been remanded into police custody by the Sowutuom Magistrate Court for shooting and injuring three persons during a funeral ceremony at Joma, in the Ga West District. The victims of the shooting incident are Kamal Nurideen, 13, who sustained a bullet wound to …