CRIME & PUNISHMENT

Some students and teachers of Bolgatanga Technical Institute (BOTECH) arrested by the Police in the Upper East Region over recent disturbances following examination malpractices have been granted bail. On Monday, August 1, officials of the National Intelligence Bureau (NIB) picked up four students and two teachers, a national service person …

Emmy Duro, 29, Nigerian businessman has appeared before an Adentan Circuit Court for allegedly stabbing his co- tenant with a broken bottle at Nanakrom, near Ashalley Botwe in Accra. Duro is alleged to have demanded answers from his co-tenant as to why he wanted to sleep with his wife, one …

Two robbers who were arrested by the Police at Abesewa, a suburb of Dunkwa-On-Offin in the Central Region have been handed 20 and 10 years jail terms in hard labour respectively. The convicts, Sumaila Nketia alias Last Two and Kwabena Nyameke alias Kalilu were arrested following police intelligence-driven investigation and …

The Ghana Police Service has interdicted two officers over the death of a suspect who was under detention at the Abrafo-Kokoben Police Station in the Ashanti Region. They are No.44908 G/Sgt. Isaac Amponsah Broni and No.55453 G/Const. Solomon Yeboah. According to reports, the deceased suspect, who was arrested on August …

Eleven officers of the Ghana National Fire Service (GNFS) have been dismissed after they were fingered in a recruitment fraud. The officers, according to a statement from the service and addressed to Daily Graphic, were fired on the grounds of indiscipline. The statement indicated that those dismissed were composed of …

The Police have arrested the driver of a DAF Truck with registration number GM 2570-12, Paul Kwah which collided with a Toyota Hiace bus at Eduagyei on the Elmina-Komenda junction road in the Central Region. The accident led to the death of 12 persons. Preliminary investigations by the Police revealed …

A 37-year-old evangelist, Frederick Darko, is in the grips of the Gomoa Nyanyano police for sodomising a 15-year-old boy. The victim alleged that the evangelist has been sodomising him for about two years now. Frederick Darko, a self-styled evangelist had sought permission from the parents of the victim to live …

The Ghana Police Service have arrested 10 students of the Anyinasin Methodist Junior High School for allegedly assaulting a teacher in Akyem-Kukurantumi in the Eastern Region. The students reportedly assaulted the teacher who punished them for trading an illicit drug called D10 in school. According to a Daily Guide report, the …

A pastor and his wife accused of defrauding 875 people of GH¢23.7 million have been granted bail with sureties by an Accra High Court after making their maiden appearance before it. Pastor Kelvin Elson Godson, also known as Kelvin Kwasi Kobiri, and his wife, Sabina Elson Godson, have both pleaded …

A 60-year-old man has been fined Gh¢12,000 and some items including three sheep, crates of assorted drinks, and bottles of exotic schnapps by the traditional authorities of Assin Andoe in the Assin South District for having sexual intercourse with his three biological daughters and impregnating them. Kwame Atta, popularly known …