Tag Archives: jailed

  • The convict beat the baby up with a peach tree stick • The court handed her 17 years in jail for the offence • She was taking care of the baby as its mother worked in Cape Town A 49-year-old South African woman has been jailed 17 years …

  A high court in the South African capital of Pretoria has jailed a serial rapist and robber to on 988 years in prison. The National Prosecutor reported that Sello Abram Maponya bagged 988 years and 5 life terms; with the judge ruling further that sentences were not to run …

A week ago, GhPage reported an unfortunate incident about how a man poured acid on his wife while she was taking her bath. The man identified as Papa Nii has been sentenced to 10 years imprisonment by the Weija Circuit Court. In a post shared on Facebook by Crime Check …

A former UK High Commissioner to Ghana, Craig Murray has been jailed for contempt in the United Kingdom. The 62-year-old was sentenced to eight months in jail for breaching strict rules around identifying witnesses in the Alex Salmond trial. The former Dundee University rector breached a strict court order passed to protect …

  Three illegal miners have been jailed five years each by a Circuit Court in Koforidua for engaging in illegal mining at Tentenku No.8 near Kofi Pare in the Kraboa Coaltar district of the Eastern Region. The convicts, Alhassan Abass, 28, Ibrahim Mohammed, 45, and Munkaila Djebo, 38, were apprehended …

The son of Liberia’s ex-footballer president, George Weah, has been handed a six-month suspended jail sentence by a French court for “Ibiza-style” parties at his home in an upmarket Paris suburb. George Weah Junior, 33, was also ordered to pay 20,000 euros (24,000 dollars) to his neighbours after more than …

  Wonder Ahiadzro, a driver of the Ghana Revenue Authority, Customs Division, who stole and sold a Toyota LandCruiser at the cost of GHC20,000, has been sentenced to 18 months imprisonment by the Kaneshie District Court. The original price of the vehicle, property of GRA, Customs Division, is stated at …

A jury in Italy has sentenced two (2) Americans to life in prison for the killing of a police officer. The jury of two judges and six civilians deliberated for more than 12 hours before convicting Finnegan Lee Elder, 21, and Gabriel Natale Hjorth, 20. There was a gasp in …

  The 90-day jail sentence handed to social media personality, Rosemond Brown, on charges of publication of obscene material and domestic violence, has stoked conversations across various media platforms. Widely known as Akuapem Poloo, Rosemond was incarcerated after she posted a nude photo of herself and her seven-year-old son on social …

A Circuit Court in Bekwai in the Ashanti Region presided by His Honour Mark Diboro has jailed a 35-year-old driver, Yaw Gyamfi, to 15 years imprisonment for impersonating as a military officer to defraud two persons a total of Ghc16,300 under false pretense of enlisting them into the Ghana Armed …