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A final year student of the Adobewora Community Senior High School at Nyinahini in the Ashanti Region, 19-year-old, Muftaw Fuseini has been jailed for five years for stealing goats. According to a teacher of the school, Bawa Simon Laari, Fuseini who is also a tricycle rider was only hired by …

Three months on from when he was convicted for money laundering, a US-based Ghanaian, Fred Asante, has been jailed 9 years by a court in the Southern District of New York in the United States. Initially arrested on February 17, 2021, as a member of a criminal money laundering syndicate …

A court in western Germany found a woman guilty of sexual assault and handed her a six-month suspended sentence for purposefully damaging her partner’s condoms, German media reported. In handing down the ruling, the judge said the unusual case was one for Germany’s legal history books — representing an instance of criminal “stealthing,” but …

The High Court in Accra has sentenced one Bright Boso, a driver, who was charged for allegedly pouring an acid on his girlfriend to 10 years in prison. The court presided over by Justice Lydia Osei Marfo convicted him after the court found him guilty of the offence before sentencing …

A 38-year-old farmer found guilty of attempting to trade his son has been handed a 10-year jail sentence by the Takoradi Circuit Court B. Kwabena Ebo pleaded guilty to a charge of trading of a person contrary to sections 2(1) & (2) of the Human Trafficking Act 694 of 2001. …

The Asamankese Circuit Court presided over by His Honour Abass Abubakari Adams has convicted two car snatchers to a total of 40 years imprisonment. The convicts are Desmond Okyere,20, a cobbler, and Delay Adu Frank,26, a driver. The facts of the case presented by the Prosecutor Inspector Samuel Owusu, are …

A British-born terrorist of Ghanaian descent, Alexander Kotey has been sentenced to life by a federal judge in Virginia, United States of America. Alexander Kotey, was sentenced by a federal Judge, Thomas Selby Ellis at Alexandria District Court in Virginia on Friday, April 29, 2022 The 38-year-old was condemned to …

A court in Rwanda has sentenced a Muslim cleric to five years in prison for killing a pig in a mosque. Three witnesses told the court that they saw the Imam, Sadate Musengimana, beating the pig with a piece of wood, killing it on the spot, BBC reports. His lawyer …

Ernest Boakye, a 30-year-old fuel station manager of the Kwahu-Tafo branch of Infin Ghana Limited has been jailed for 120 months in hard labour by the Mpraeso Circuit Court for stealing GH¢398,545 belonging to his employer. He pleaded not guilty to stealing, was slapped with the sentence after the court, …

Two men who robbed a businesswoman of her bag and inflicted cutlass wounds on her right hand in Cape Coast have been sentenced to a total of 65 years in prison by a Cape Coast circuit court. The convicts, Daniel Bentum, a 33-year-old driver, who had already served a 15-year …