Courts and Crime
17th November, 2012
For daring to call their area of operation “Sodom and Gomorrah”, a group of prostitutes and ‘We’ peddlers attacked and pummelled an evangelist to a pulp last Sunday.
The evangelist is said to have likened the ‘ECOMOG’ slum, which was razed down by fire, to Sodom and Gomorrah in the Bible.
The squatters, still counting their loss ...
31st January, 2012
A police task force in the Fanteakwa District last Friday impounded a Hyundai bus with registration number GS 3340 Z, fully loaded with 32 large size sacks of dry leaves suspected to be Indian hemp ...
24th January, 2012
The Akim Swedru Circuit Court in the Birim South District, has jailed Gabriel Manfo, a school drop-out, to 10 years imprisonment in hard labour for abduction and defilement of a 14-year-old ...
18th January, 2012
Twenty-six suspects made up of 19 men and seven women have been arrested at Apesokubi, near Worawora in the Biakoye District of the Volta region, for possessing firearms and other offensive ...
10th January, 2012
Two people have been arrested by the Dansoman Police for their alleged murder of a –four- year- old boy who was found dead in a disused deep freezer at Shiabu near Dansoman involvement in ...
4th January, 2012
Takoradi Circuit Court “B” on Friday sentenced Slyvester Blay Aziane, a trader at Beyin to 15 years imprisonment with hard labour for stealing and smuggling rubber caplongs.
He pleaded ...
4th January, 2012
The Western Regional Police has launched a manhunt for two men who attacked and robbed the occupants of a house of both foreign and local currencies as well as other valuables.
The suspects, Yaw ...
27th December, 2011
The Attorney-General has challenged the GH¢ 52 million consent judgment obtained by the National Democratic Congress stalwart, Alfred Woyome, in June, last year on the basis that it was “procured ...
24th December, 2011
A 48-year-old farmer at Patasi a farming cottage on the Elu Bo-Enchi road, Barima Yaw Asamoah, on Thursday shot himself dead with a single barreled gun.
Barima, it is suspected, committed the ...
16th December, 2011
Six illegal miners, who were arrested for allegedly taking part in a rampage at Damang and Hunivalley on Friday have been remanded in prison custody by a Tarkwa Circuit Court.
The six accused ...
16th December, 2011
Kofi Nyarko, a convict who was released under the ‘Justice for All Programme,’ has been jailed 50 years by a circuit court here for robbery.
The Justice for All Programme brings judges to the ...
16th December, 2011
The Appeal Court, sitting in Cape Coast, by unanimous decision has convicted the self-styled Omanhene of Elmina, Nana Conduah VI, to a total fine of GH¢10,000 or in default spend 30 days in ...
16th December, 2011
A 26-year-old, Eugene Addo Larteh, who is the branch manager of Market Direct Company, is alleged to have stolen GH¢199,824.60 from the company and went into hiding since June 2011.
Briefing the ...
14th December, 2011
A total of 1,020 grammes of substances, tested as cocaine three years ago in Police Forensic Laboratory, have mysteriously turned into Sodium bicarbonate (baking soda), while in the custody of the ...
14th December, 2011
A 32 –year-old Laboratory Technician, Prosper Felli, has been remanded into prison custody by an Accra Community Magistrate’s Court, for producing fake HIV report for a 26-year-old unemployed ...
14th December, 2011
A 45-year-old Vulcanizer and farmer who allegedly assaulted her 69-year old mother and threatened to shorten her life with a cutlass has been ordered by the Koforidua Circuit Court to execute a bond ...
14th December, 2011
This is the state of Ghana’s skipper, John Mensah’s wife Escalade's vehicle.
The side glass was broken by armed robbers on Sunday dawn at their Trassaco Valley Estate where they pay GH¢5,000 ...
14th December, 2011
Ivy Nkrumah, the 20 –year old househelp, who faked a pregnancy, had been remanded into Police custody by an Accra Circuit Court.
She was remanded by the court presided over by Mrs Georgina ...
10th December, 2011
Five suspected armed robbers, including an ex police officer were yesterday arrested by the police at Akweley, at Kasoa in the Central Region.
Another suspect, identified as Baba Sule, was shot ...
10th December, 2011
The Accra Commercial Court has slapped a GH 5,000 cost against Vodafone Ghana for bringing “unmeritorious” application to stay proceedings in the case in which the government has been sued for ...