CRIME & PUNISHMENT

A 10-year-old boy, Awal Mohammed, who had his body slashed multiple times by his mother at their home in the Obuasi suburb of Boete in the Ashanti Region, has been hospitalized. He had reportedly collapsed in a neighbour’s house where he sought refuge. He was rushed to the Bryant Mission …

One of the two youngsters who robbed two sisters has been jailed for 20 years by the Bekwai Circuit Court. Godwin Nyarko, 18, was convicted on his plea of guilty to three counts of robbery, contrary to sections 23 (1) and 149 of the Criminal Offence Act 29/60. Prosecutor, Detective …

The police in Hamlin in the Upper West Region are on a man-haunt for a 30-year-old woman for allegedly poisoning the husband to death. The suspect, Mariam Yakubu, reportedly prepared a meal for the husband and allegedly poisoned it with weedicides. Disclosing the circumstances which led to the action of …

Police at Kukuom in the Asunafo South District of the Ahafo Region have arrested three persons with human parts at Abuom near Sankore. The three; Peter Foh, 35, Yaw Yeridie, 31, and Berko Isaac, 30, were arrested at about 11 pm on Sunday, July 21, 2019. The Kukuom District Police …

Three people, including an agric director, have been arrested in the Sunyani West District of the Bono Region for allegedly stealing 4,000 bags of fertilizer meant for the Planting for Food and Jobs (PFJ). They are Gilbert Sonkpi, district agric director; Owusu Banahene, district desk officer for PFJ; and a …

Two persons have been handed a total of 40 years in jail by the Kasoa Circuit Court presided over by His Lordship Ebenezer Osei Darko. The two Daniel Amoah and Yaw Danso were convicted on the charge of conspiracy to commit crime to wit robbery. The two were alleged to …

Jacob Quashie Okai, a 40 year old man was on Thursday shot dead by an unknown assailant at Ntoaso near  Adoagyiri in the Eastern Region. Briefing the Ghana News Agency (GNA), Police Superintendent Mrs Marian Osei-Owusu said the incident occurred at about 1000 hours in the morning after the deceased had …

A 47-year-old man has under a strange circumstance, stabbed his six-year-old son to death at Diabene, a farming community within the Sekondi/Takoradi metropolis of the Western Region. Kwaku Aaba, a local gin distiller, allegedly used a sharp machete to slash the boy’s neck from the back without any provocation whatsoever, …

The Apapa Area Command of the Nigeria Customs Service has announced the interception of an ambulance conveying 10 cartons of 225 milligrams of Tramadol in the Apapa area of Lagos State. It said the Hyundai ambulance, with number plate, LND 605 XW, was intercepted with the drugs while the driver …

A third suspect has been arrested in connection with the murder of the 24-year-old business woman in Koforidua, Rita Afia Adusei Opokua. The suspect only identified as Babule was arrested Wednesday at his hide out in Koforidua. Police is on manhunt for the arrest of the last suspect. Residents storm …