Tag Archives: SENTENCED

Danish citizen, Peter Nielsen, who was the husband of late Nigerian singer, Zainab Joy Nielsen, better known as Alizee, has been sentenced to death by hanging for his involvement in her 2018 murder. A Lagos High Court presided over by Justice Bolanle Okikiolu-Ighile, on Friday, May 20, 2022, found him …

A Congolese military court has sentenced a high-ranking policeman to death for his role in the 2010 murder of human rights activist Floribert Chebeya, which caused national outrage. Commissioner of police, Christian Ngoy Kenga Kenga was found guilty of murder, desertion and misappropriation of weapons and ammunition. Mr Chebeya’s body …

A man linked to the Cape Town taxi industry has been slapped with a 20-year jail sentence for burning a train. Ricardo Khan was sentenced in the Blue Downs regional court this week. Eric Ntabazalila, the spokesperson for the prosecution in the Western Cape, said the projected impact on the …

A court in Burkina Faso has sentenced the country’s former president, Blaise Compaoré, to life in prison for the murder of his predecessor, Thomas Sankara. Sankara, who was not one of those African leaders to be told what to do by western nations, was murdered after four years in power …

An Indonesian court handed down a death sentence on Monday to a teacher for raping 13 girls at an Islamic school, upholding an appeal by prosecutors for the death penalty after he had initially received a sentence of life in prison. The case of teacher Herry Wirawan has shocked Indonesia …

Three young men in Akatsi have been sentenced to a total of 60 years imprisonment by the Sogakope Court last Friday. The three, Godsway Sedofia, 19, Seraphim Torgbor, and Destiny Adzakpo, both 18, were sentenced for conspiring and robbing an ‘okada’ operator of his motorbike at gunpoint Each of them …

A 48-year-old carpenter, Sampson Dei, has been sentenced to 20-years imprisonment for defiling a 12-year-old girl with a special condition at Peki-Blengo in the Volta Region. According to the prosecutor of the case, Inspector Henry Doku, Sampson Dei was caught committing the crime on Sunday, March 20, 2022 by the …

A man who raped and murdered his mother-in-law has been handed a 35-years sentence at Giyani Regional Court in Limpopo, South Africa Police said that the victim was home alone when Alpha Ngobeni,28, from Xikukwani under Greater Giyani municipality, broke into the house on 13 February 2021 and raped her. …

An Ekiti State High Court sitting in Ado Ekiti, the Ekiti State capital, has sentenced a man, Tunmise Abraham, to death by hanging for raping and killing his landlady, Mrs Bukola Olanrewaju, a mother of three. The court found Abraham guilty of raping and killing his landlady at the Olorunda …

A 29-year-old driver who impregnated a 15-year-old girl at La Wireless in Accra, has been sentenced to 10 years imprisonment by an Accra Circuit Court. Justice Shamo Abbey, charged with defilement, pleaded not guilty. He also denied being responsible for the pregnancy. A DNA test conducted, however, revealed that he …