The Ashaiman District Court has sentenced Prince Agbeko, a 22-year-old forklift apprentice to a total of four years imprisonment in hard labor for stealing phones in three different cases. The Court Presided over by Mrs. Eleanor Kakra Banes Botchway sentenced Agbeko after pleading guilty to stealing in all three cases. …
Read More »Man gets stroke after judge pronounced his sentence
He is currently at the hospital receiving treatment An unemployed driver, Emmanuel Appiah, has been struck by ‘stroke’ after he was sentenced to three years imprisonment by a court in the Central Region for stealing. According to Emmanuel’s sister-in-law, Ruth, he fell unconscious whiles he was being escorted from …
Read More »Canada based Nigerian sentenced to eight years by US for fraud
US court don sentence Olumide Bankole Morakinyo, one Nigerian wey dey stay for Canada to eight years in prison for Defrauding Texas Employees Retirement System. Di court wey dey di Western District of Texas also say Morakinyo go repay back $975,863 to multiple victims for conspiracy to commit money laundering. …
Read More »‘Hollywood Ripper’ Michael Gargiulo sentenced to death for murders
A convicted murderer nicknamed the “Hollywood Ripper” has been sentenced to death for the killings of two women in the 2000s. Relatives of his victims wept as a judge gave Michael Gargiulo the sentence in Los Angeles on Friday. In 2019 Gargiulo, 45, was convicted of two counts of murder …
Read More »Macron ‘slapper’ bags 4-month prison sentence
A 28-year-old Frenchman who described himself as a right-wing or extreme-right “patriot” was sentenced to four months in prison Thursday for slapping President Emmanuel Macron in the face. Damien Tarel was also banned from ever holding public office in France and from owning weapons for five years over the swipe …
Read More »Will killers of Takoradi girls become first to be executed by death sentence since 1993?
Two Nigerians, Samuel Udoetuk Wills and John Oji were on Friday, March 5, 2020 condemned to death by a Sekondi High Court. The two were found guilty of the kidnap and subsequent murder of Ruth Abakah, 19; Priscilla Blessing Bentum, 21; Ruth Love Quayson,18 and Priscilla Koranchie, 15 between July …
Read More »27-year-old sentenced to life for raping disabled 14-year-old girl
A 27-year-old man from Ga-Tamatis has been found guilty of raping a disabled 14-year-old girl, and was sentenced to life imprisonment in the Lebowakgomo regional court. The man, whose name has been withheld to protect the identity of the victim, was well known to the girl. The National Prosecuting Authority’s …
Read More »Court sentences recidivist to 24 months
The Enchi District Magistrate court has sentenced a twenty-year-old rickshaw rider to 24 months imprisonment in hard labor for stealing a royal motorbike with registration number M-16-AS-4029. Samuel Ebbah, alias Gadafi, who pleaded guilty to the offence was recently jailed for committing a similar offence. Before the presiding Judge, Mr …
Read More »Two men who killed cop sentenced to life in jail
Surprise Mokoebo, 27, and Thabang Maleka, 26, were sentenced on Friday for the murder of Constable Samuel Hlongwane of the Brits Tactical Response Team. Hlongwane, who was 35, was walking along Letlhabile main road when his friend, driving a BMW, stopped for a chat, said police spokesperson Lieutenant Colonel Amanda …
Read More »Father who raped his 6-year-old daughter get life sentence
A 40-year-old Gauteng father who raped his six-year-old child two years ago was given life imprisonment on Thursday. This is according to the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA), which welcomed the sentence handed down by the Springs regional court. “On June 16, 2018, while the mother of the child had left …
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