CRIME & PUNISHMENT

30-year old electrician accused of defiling 7-year old granted bail

The 30-year old electrician who defiled a seven-year-old girl at Agona Nyakrom has been granted bail. The bail conditions include two sureties. The accused person, Abdallah Idriss, alias Baba Star Boy, pleaded not guilty to defilement and other charges against him when he appeared before the Swedru Circuit Court. The …

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Woman steals two weeks old baby at KATH

The Police in the Ashanti region are on a manhunt for a woman who stole two weeks old baby from a 19 year old mother at the Komfo Anotky Teaching Hospital (KATH) in Kumasi. The mother of the lost baby admits to have left the baby in the care of …

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Mechanic jailed a year for stealing rail metals

The Assin Fosu District Court has sentenced a 29-year-old auto-mechanic to one-year imprisonment for stealing four lines of rail tracks. The tracks belong to the Ghana Railway Company at Assin-Fosu in the Assin Central Municipality of the Central Region. Daniel Dadzie, alias Yaw Donkoh, was said to have stolen the …

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Man burns fingers of 10-year-old son for stealing ¢250

A 55-year old Osmanu Mumuni is in the firm grips of the law for severing the ears of his 10-year-old son and burning his fingers for stealing his money. The incident which occurred at Obom-Domeabra in the Greater Accra region is said to have been triggered when the father accused …

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55-year-old father cuts son’s ear with blade over GH¢250

55-year-old Osmanu Mumuni has been arrested by the Weija Divisional DOVVSU for cutting off part of his son’s ear with a blade. According to the police, the mother of the child reported that a day earlier, her ex-husband Osman Mumuni whom the boy stays with chipped off part of his …

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17-year-old boy banished from Tutukpene community returns

A 17-year-old boy who was banished by the Tutukpene community in the Nkwanta South District of the Oti Region has returned to the town. Andrews Amoah, a primary six pupil of the Tutukpene M.A. Basic School was on April 24, 2020, expelled from the community by the chief and elders …

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Immigration patrol team seizes marijuana from smugglers at Aflao border

The Ghana Immigration Service (GIS) has intercepted 31 pieces of suspected marijuana from smugglers crossing with the consignment into the Republic of Togo The Aflao Command border patrol team stopped the attempt by a syndicated motor-riding smuggler trying to move the commodity across Ghana’s border through an unapproved route -‘beat’ …

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Man bites student’s clitoris, gets 7-year prison term

The Bekwai Circuit Court has jailed an excavator operator seven years for defiling a 15-year-old student. 27-year-old Derrick Amponsah reportedly bit the victim’s clitoris in the cause of the act. The second-cycle student was left bleeding profusely from her genitals. The incident took place at Manso Yawkrom in the Amansie …

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