CRIME & PUNISHMENT

A 26-year-old church drummer who had sex with a six-year-old girl at a church office at Laterbiokoshie, a suburb of Accra, has been sentenced to 15 years imprisonment by an Accra Circuit Court. Nathaniel Ayiku pleaded not guilty to defilement. The court presided over by Mrs Christina Cann, however, found …

The Police have arrested a man for staging a robbery attack with the plan to use a sum of GHS69,000 belonging to his bosses to travel abroad. In a statement posted on the official Facebook page of the Ghana Police Service, it says the suspect of the fake robbery attack …

The Ghana Police Service has said that its officers in the Upper East Region have shot and killed a suspected robber during a shootout at Nyariga Forest, near Bolgatanga. According to the Police, the suspected robbers, three in number, were engaged by its officers on patrol, in a shootout, after intelligence gathered …

The Kaneshie District Court in Accra has sentenced an employee of Satguru Travel and Tours Agency, Soni Manoj to a fine of GH¢3,600 for forging and faking some COVID-19 test certificates. The prosecution of the convict was instigated by LEDing Medical Laboratory whose COVID-19 test results design layout was forged by Soni Manoj for …

A man believed to be an independent representative of network marketing company ,Qnet, has committed suicide by hanging at Koforidua-Oyoko in the Eastern Region The deceased, name yet to be disclosed, was found hanging on the tree by residents . The residents alleged he came to the area last year …

Seth Kwadwo Dese, 69, a retiree and father of eight, has been jailed for three years for sleeping with his underage daughter for two years. The retired teacher, after abusing the minor, persistently also threw her out of the house when she started resisting his sexual demands. Dese pleaded not …

A 45-year-old man, Zakaria Alhassan has been remanded into police custody for allegedly killing his own mother over his missing GH¢100. The incident occurred at Sooba, a community in the West Mamprusi Municipality of the North East Region. The man was said to have shot his 71-year-old mother when she …

A man was handed a 10-year jail sentence after he was found guilty of holding a six-week-old baby against the dry ice in his refrigerator. Two years of the sentence was suspended for five years by the Pretoria High Court. According to lobby group AfriForum, Judge Mokhine Mosopa handed down …

A Police operation has foiled an intended robbery attack on passengers and motorists on the feeder road between Nyamebekyere-Kokotenten which is robbery prone in Obuasi. The operation has led to the shooting of one of the suspected robbers. Four other suspected robbers who were not within the range of the …

Michael Ayittey Okai, aka “Ayittey Powers”, a boxer, has appeared before a Kaneshie District Court for allegedly defrauding a building contractor of GH¢45,000. Ayittey Powers allegedly collected the amount to secure the contractor an Australian Visa and include him in his team for a boxing contest in Australia, but failed …