CRIME & PUNISHMENT

Suspected hardened criminals believed to be Yemenis and Syrians – Sanousi Khalifa Mohammed and cousin Amel are in the police grips after countless failed attempts to arrest them, GhanaWeb has gathered. Reports say the suspects were on Thursday picked up by the Tesano Police Intelligence team at the Landing Restaurant …

Police in Ho have rescued 14 children trafficked from Tatale in the Northern Region to Adjena, near Akosombo in the Eastern Region, to work on vegetable farms. The children, eleven boys and three girls, aged 10 to 16, were rescued in transit at Juapong in the Volta Region on February …

The Nasarawa State Police Command has arrested a woman, Paulina Santos, of Azuba community in Lafia, who was allegedly scouting for criminals to kidnap her wealthy friend’s mother. The commissioner of police said the woman had contacted someone to help her organise a gang that would kidnap the mother of her bosom friend. …

 WATCH THE VIDEO BELOW: A 49-year-old man, who forcible had sex with a 19-year-old junior high school one pupil, has been sentenced to 10 years imprisonment. The convict, Adamu Tawiah, was found guilty of sodomy and sentenced by the Awutu Ofaakor Circuit Court, presided over by his Lordship Justice Ebenezer …

A Takoradi District Magistrate court has once again adjourned a case in which two Nigerians are standing trial for allegedly kidnapping and murdering four girls from Western Region’s city of Takoradi to March 19, 2020. On February 5 the State Attorney, Adeliade Kobiri-Woode, dropped the previous charge of kidnappings against …

A 49-year-old man, Adamu Tawiah, has been accused of serially sodomising a 19-year old man. The incident occurred at Peace Town, Kasoa-Amanfrom, in the Central Region. Narrating the incident to Accra 100.5FM’s Opanyin Darko on Tuesday, 18 February 2020, the victim said: “The man asked for my name and I …

TheGhanaReport profiles a list of six prisoners, who escaped from custody while on labour duty outside some prisons in parts of the country. They have been declared wanted by the Ghana Prisons Service. The fugitives are convicted persons, serving various terms for stealing, conspiracy and robbery. The escapees, who ran …

Two girls both aged 15, reported missing by the Ghana Police Service a week ago, have been found at Gomoa Nyanyanor in the company of six young men who took turns to sexually abuse them. According to the Accra Regional Police Public Relations Officer, Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) Afia …

The Anyah District Police in Greater Accra is investigating a case of incest against a 42-year-old father who is said to have sexually abused his biological daughter and impregnated her. The 14-year old daughter is a primary six pupil and is currently five months pregnant while the father [name withheld] …

Two girls who were reported missing on February 8, 2019, have been found, Accra Regional Police Public Relations Officer, DSP Afia Tenge has said. Their disappearance which was largely attributed to a case of kidnap apparently was misconstrued. According to DSP Afia Tenge, the girls who were found at a …