CRIME & PUNISHMENT

Police in Malawi have named an officer killed on Tuesday during clashes with anti-government protesters in Msundwe – a trading outpost west of the capital city, Lilongwe. Police spokesman James Kadadzerab told news agency AFP that officer Usumani Imedi had been stoned to death and “killed by rioters and criminals”. …

Three persons have been jailed eight (8) years each for Stealing an AK47 rifle from a Police Officer at Asesewa in the Eastern Region and selling it for Ghc1,000 The convicts – Kofi Osakonor, 24, a farmer, Isaac Agyemang, 19, masonry apprentice and Sarkodie Solomon, 20, an apprentice in Barbering, …

Tragedy struck the Mamponteng community in the Kwabre East District of the Ashanti Region last Sunday when a 14-year old boy shot and killed his eight-year-old sister. The incident has been described as an accident, which involved their grandfather’s single barrel gun. The whole community was thrown in a state …

Hard drives in about five High Courts located in the Law Court Complex building have been stolen from system units of computers used for recording and storing Court records and proceedings, Starr News has learnt. The case of theft is believed to have happened during the just ended legal vacation …

The senior military officer, Colonel Samuel Kojo Gameli, who is being held together with others for allegedly plotting to destabilise Ghana, has expressed disgust at the manner he has been handled by the State so far. According to the officer, he has since his arrest on September 23 “been treated …

Kweku Arhin, a resident of Gomoa Kweikrom in the Central region, has been allegedly stabbed to death by his 38-year-old friend, Kenneth Arhin after his cat chewed his fried fish. Information available to Adom News indicated that the deceased met his untimely death during a confrontation with the suspect to …

  A man has fatally slashed his mother at Effia-Kwesimintim in Takoradi in the Western region. The incident happened Friday at about 8am after the woman’s son entered the house at Sofo Zongo in Effia-Kwesimitim, JoyNews Western regional correspondent Ina-Thalia Quansah reported. The woman, known as Daavi and believed to …

One of the most popular tourist in Paris is sealed off after an attacker goes on a knife rampage and is shot dead. Four police officers have been killed in a knife attack at the police headquarters in Paris, says a union official. The attacker, who worked in the building, …

Some four females have again been reported missing by the police in the Western Region. All four persons reportedly went missing in September 2019. Forty-two-year-old Augustina Koomson left home on September 12 to work but has since not been seen, police say. Rosina Gyekyewaa, a 13-year-old girl, also missing at …

The name of a soldier at the Jubilee House—the seat of government—is among those being suspected over the ‘Alajo Doctor’s coup plot.’ So far, Corporal Zakaria Waheed is among 11 others who are under investigations over their implication in the plot to destabilize the country and overthrow the government. His …