CRIME & PUNISHMENT

A 60-year-old farmer has been Butchered multiple times in the head by unknown attackers at 44 a suburb community in the Suhum Municipality of the Eastern Region. The victim Lawrence Obuobi Nyanteh suffered multiple serious injuries in the head by his attackers who also fled with few monies in his pocket. …

Some angry youth of Adabraka Odorna in Accra who have been incensed by the death of a fellow resident have vandalised the Adabraka police station. The residents blamed the police for the death of a man who fell and drowned in the Odaw drain. Scores of the residents besieged the …

The Upper East Regional Police Command is urging the General Public to assist in tracing a 51-year-old suspect Mallam Ali for his alleged involvement in the gruesome murder of a 20-year-old Tricycle rider at the Sherigu, a suburb of Bolgatanga. This follows a bench warrant issued for his arrest by …

Emmanuel Antwi, 19, is said to have made his way through the ceiling of the drinking spot located at Maabang, near Adankwame in the Atwima-Nwabiagya North District, with iron bars at about 2300 hours, and took drinks valued at GHc 4,000.00 and cash of GHc 400.00. He pleaded guilty and …

A commercial vehicle driver, Gbenga Ogungbemi, and his friend, Tosin Olbamoyo, have been arrested by men of the Ogun state police command for allegedly killing a businesswoman, Evelyn Ebere, and stealing her N400,000. A statement by the state police command spokesperson, Abimbola Oyeyemi, said Gbenga who usually takes the deceased to Ire-Ekiti …

The Effiduase Magistrate Court in the Ashanti Region has sentenced a 27-year-old fetish priest at Effiduase two years imprisonment for attempting to exhume the body of one Francis Kwabena Agyapong, who was buried recently. The court, presided over by Michael Derrick Ocloo, sentenced Yaw Michael after pleading guilty to the …

The Akropong Circuit Court has fined four Kingmakers arrested for flouting imposition of restriction on gathering a total of GHC48,576. The convicted persons are Odehye Kofi Asiedu Adu-Mfum,57, Nana Semenhyia Ohene Asa Krofa, 43, Benet Osei opoku alias Ohenenana BS Opoku,55, and Nana Odiasempa Krobea Asante,70, were Charged for failing …

The two fetish priests, who have been arrested for murder, had in their possession an idol-looking sculpture fitted with human skulls, which they allegedly used for their rituals. The fetish priest A special police team raided the shrine last Thursday and retrieved an assortment of tell-tale exhibits. Apart from the …

The Criminal Investigations Department (CID) has given updates on the Power 1 Shrine saga. According to the CID, the accipient who went missing and later found buried at the Power 1 Shrine at Maame Dede in the Eastern Region has been identified as Mr Edward Quartey Papafio. The deceased was …

The Manhyia Divisional Police Command in the Ashanti Region has arrested a wedded wife and her boyfriend for conniving to kill her husband at Pamen near Kwabeng in the Eastern region. The two were arrested after they mistook the would-be contract killer’s cell phone number for Manhyia Divisional Police Commander’s. …