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An 18-year-old Kenyan girl has been jailed five years for starting a school dormitory fire that killed ten of her schoolmates in Kenya. The girl committed the offence when she was 14 years old in 2017 while in her first year at Moi Girls Secondary School in the Kenyan capital, …

A security coordinator at the Metro Mass Transit Company Limited Lawal Fuseina has been sentenced to serve a 10-year prison term for blackmailing his former Managing Director (MD) Mr Bennet Aboagye. The Circuit Court in Accra convicted and sentenced him after he was found guilty for charges including unlawful entry …

Two persons, who sprayed powered pepper into the eyes of a taxi driver in their bid to snatch his vehicle and rob him of money, have been sentenced to 25 years imprisonment each by an Accra Circuit Court. The complainant George Obeng whiles struggling with the convicts, bit the finger …

The Awutu Senya East Circuit Court has convicted a 43-year-old man, Suleman Osman to six months imprisonment for assaulting one Elvis Asansu, a staff of the Kasoa South District of the Electricity Company of Ghana in the Central Region. Prosecuting Officer, Chief Inspector Sylvester Agbezuden told the court that the …

A broadcaster with Accra-based Power FM, Oheneba Boamah Bennie, sentenced to 14 days to the Nsawam prison, has been released today, Monday, 21 February 2022. The Accra High Court Criminal Division sentenced Mr Boamah. Apart from that, he was also to pay GHS3000 to the court. Mr Boamah posted alleged …

A 33-year-old unemployed woman, Priscilla Owusua has been sentenced to seven years imprisonment in hard labour by the Asamankese Circuit Court for stealing a three-month-old child in Boadua. Priscilla Owusua, also known as Haggar was charged for child stealing, contrary to section 23(1) and 93 of the Criminal offenses Acts …

A four-member drug syndicate of Ghanaian origin have been jailed by the Isleworth Crown Court in the United Kingdom, UK, for trafficking 38 kilogrammes (38kgs) of cocaine with a street value of £2.88 million. The syndicate is said to have trafficked the drugs from Ghana to the United Kingdom (UK). …

A joint operation by Ghanaian security officials and their counterparts from the United Kingdom has led to the arrest of a gang of drug traffickers. The suspects are; Eric Kusi Appiah, 51; Albert Kaakyire Gyamfi, 52; Jennifer Agyemang, 38 years; and Julius Tetteh Puplampu, 56 years. The arrest led to …

A US woman, whose boyfriend killed her son while she was at work, has been sentenced to 16 months in jail. Rebecca Hogue, 29, was convicted in November of the first-degree murder of her two-year-old son Ryder, under Oklahoma’s “failure to protect” laws. A jury recommended she be sentenced to …

A 39-year-old driver has been convicted and jailed for 20 years after pleading guilty to defiling his co-tenant’s six-year-old daughter. Daniel Hodzi was convicted on his own guilty plea before the court presided over by Her Honour Mrs Christiana Cann on his first appearance. Hodzi was charged with defilement after …