CRIME & PUNISHMENT

GHS10K bounty put on cop killers’ head

The Ghana Police Service has placed a GHS10,000 bounty on the heads of the killers of a policewoman at a checkpoint on the Kumbungu road in Tamale on 30 July 2019.According to the police, the victim was shot when she tried to stop a saloon car believed to be occupied …

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15-year-old boy faces two years sentence

Adom is a boy under 18 years who has been sentenced to a two-year jail term at the Kumasi Central Prison for allegedly stealing Two thousand Ghana cedis. According to the juvenile, he will turn 15 years in three months’ time. However “the policeman who handled my case falsified my …

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Takoradi kidnapping suspects used coded language in Facebook chats – State Attorney

  The Chief State Attorney in the Takoradi kidnapping case, Patience Klinogo says the two Nigerian suspects, Sam Udoetuk Wills and John Oji, used coded language in their conversations on Facebook. During court proceedings on Wednesday, she revealed that the suspects used a language that is related to kidnapping and …

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Forty-eight remand prisoners benefit from legal aid

A project that seeks to protect and improve the welfare of prisoners and ex-convicts has, within the period of 12-months, extended free legal services to 48 remand prisoners in and around Tamale. The project dubbed: “Harnessing Opportunities for Prison Ex-convicts” (HOPE), is an initiative of the Centre for Social Development …

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Military dressed armed robbers kill police woman in Tamale; bolt with weapon

Lance Corporal Agartha Nana Nabin at the Northern Regional Police Headquarters in Tamale was on Tuesday evening shot to death by military dressed armed robbers at a police check point on the Kumbungu road. According to MyNewsGh.com sources, the incident occurred at about 10:45pm near Star Oil Filing Station when …

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Asunafo South: Pastor rapes 3 Church members

29-year-old pastor has been arrested by the Asunafo south district police command for raping three of his Church members. Pastor Daniel Abisah aka OGYABOFO of the Adom Power Ministry according to the District Police Commander, ASP Lawrence Adombire reportedly arrived at Akrodie on July 22, 2019, and started a crusade …

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Tamale: Gunmen shoot dead cop; seize weapons

A female cop identified only as Corporal Agartha has been shot dead by unknown gunmen adorned in military camouflage. The incident occurred Tuesday around 10.30pm at a checkpoint at a Star Oil Filling Station near Tamale, the Northern regional crime officer Superintendent Otuo Acheampong confirmed the news to Starr News. …

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PHOTO: Police gun down two suspected armed robbers

Police on Monday night shot dead two suspected robbers in Kilimani area after they robbed a Nigerian national. The victim, Taiwo Gbenga, reported to Kileleshwa Police Station that he had been robbed by four armed men who sped off in a white saloon car registration number KCE 567 B. He …

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Court cautions Former Masloc CEO’s alleged accomplice after failure to appear for trial

The Accra High Court has cautioned Daniel Axim, an official of the Microfinance and Small Loans Centre (MASLOC), who is standing trial together with a former CEO of MASLOC, Sedina Tamakloe Attionu, on allegations of causing financial loss to the state. The court, presided over by Justice Afia Serwah Asare-Botwe, …

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Fake Barclays Bank Staff jailed for fraud

A 47-year-old man Mohammed Ali also known as Eric has been jailed by two Courts for defrauding by false pretence. The convict parading as a staff of Barclays Bank succeeded in defrauding multiple unsuspecting victims in Koforidua and Suhum. Having been slapped with nine-years and 10 months jail sentence by …

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