CRIME & PUNISHMENT

The surviving driver in a gory accident that claimed 34 lives has been sentenced to one year in prison. Appearing before a Cape Coast Circuit Court on Monday, Mark Mireku was found guilty on 34 counts of dangerous driving. The said accident happened at Dompoase on the Cape Coast-Takoradi Highway …

A fierce gun battle has led to the death of two armed robbers and caused injury to one policeman in Kumasi, the police have said. The police had got wind of a looming robbery expedition at Santasi Anyinam on Tuesday evening, so they dispatched men to the area to foil …

About 100.10 grams of a whitish substance suspected to be high value cocaine which was confiscated by the Customs Division of Ghana Revenue Authority at the Kpoglu Border Post in the Ketu South Municipality is missing. According to the Narcotics Control Board [NACOB], the substance, together with an undisclosed amount …

Apostle Kwabena Owusu Adjei, the self-styled preacher who was arrested for threatening President Akufo-Addo and Jean Mensa, the Chairperson of the Electoral Commission has tested positive for tramadol and cannabis. A test result seen by Starrfm.com.gh revealed that after tests were conducted for banned substances from samples from his urine, …

Two suspected armed robbers died during an open fire combat between the robbers and the police at Santasi a suburb of the Greater Kumasi, the Ashanti Region capital. Through the confrontation, a policeman sustained severe injuries. Four of the suspected armed robbers are said to have escaped with wounds, DCOP …

Police in Mokwakwaila, outside Tzaneen in Limpopo, have arrested a 42-year-old woman who allegedly stabbed her husband to death after she found him with another woman. According to police spokesperson Brigadier Motlafela Mojapelo, the mother of the man’s two children unexpectedly arrived at home and found him with another woman …

The Circuit Court in Accra presided over by His Honour Mr Emmanuel Essandoh has remanded two persons who were arraigned before the court on charges of stealing 15 HP Probook laptops belonging to the National Identification Authority (NIA). The two Frank Nketia, a trader and Victor Maduka, a businessman pleaded …

Three persons Norman Owusu-Bannie, Charles Asabre and Kwame Brenya who are alleged to have defrauded a Turkish businessman by false pretence of an amount of $1.4million with the intention of selling an organisation who’s life patron is His Royal Majesty, Otumfour Osei Tutu II, have been granted bail by the …

Two men have committed suicide by hanging in the Eastern region. The two incidents involving a 48 and 19-year-old men happened separately at Akyem Akroso and Nsawam respectively. At Akyem Akroso, a 48-year-old man Shaibu Musah, a former Community Police Assistant (CPA) was found hanging Wednesday morning on a tree …

A 48-year-old man, Shaibu Musa shocked residents of Akroso near Asamankese of the Eastern Region today when he was seen dead by hanging. According to Assemblymember in the area, Ahmed Tijani, the deceased was a community Police Assistant and he was assisting as a Watchdog committee member after his contract …