Courts and Crime
24th May, 2012
The Accra Metropolitan Authority (AMA) Magistrate’s Court yesterday committed jailbird and alleged “notorious armed robber”, Johnson Kombian, to stand trial at the High Court for the murder of two police constables.
He was charged with two counts of conspiracy and murder of Constables Prince Kwaku Agyare and Owusu Frimpong in October 2010 at ...
24th May, 2012
A Bolgatanga High Court has sentenced Issahaku Mubarak, a 25-year-old unemployed to 24 years in hard labour for an alleged robbery and murder of Felix Assibi, an official of the Commission on Human ...
23rd May, 2012
The Supreme Court has with a majority decision, refused to pronounce as illegal and unconstitutional, the leasing of a state bungalow to a former Minister of State, Jake Obetsebi Lamptey, which he ...
23rd May, 2012
The Accra Commercial Court yesterday adjourned to today the Ghana Telecom sale litigation case to enable a witness to produce further evidence on additional money paid to the government.
The ...
23rd May, 2012
The Appeal Court hearing the suit filed by Alfred Agbesi Woyome, a businessman, could not sit on Monday because a panel member was indisposed.
He filed a suit at the court for stay of proceedings ...
18th May, 2012
The alleged cocaine baron, Sheriff Asem Darkey, who is linked to the disappearance of 77 parcels of cocaine in 2006, was yesterday discharged by an Accra Circuit Court, following a nolle prosequi ...
18th May, 2012
The Police at Tafo/Pankrono of the Ashanti Region have arrested two men for the possession of huge quantities of dried leaves suspected to be Indian hemp, popularly called ‘Wee’.
According to ...
10th May, 2012
Prosecutors yesterday told the Accra Circuit Court trying the five people arrested for rioting over the arrest of the Member of Parliament for Assin North, Kennedy Agyapong, that they are not ready to ...
9th May, 2012
A Kumasi circuit court, presided over by Mr. E. Amo-Yartey, has dismissed an application by counsel for Alhaji Ahmed Olugbon, a party to the Yoruba chieftaincy dispute in Kumasi, for an order to set ...
7th May, 2012
The farming community of Wassa Mampong here in the Western Region was on Saturday afternoon thrown into a state of mourning when residents were informed of the gruesome murder of a woman by her ...
7th May, 2012
A Police Constable at Sekondi is being investigated for allegedly raping a married woman at Ketan Estate, near Sekondi.
Constable Ebenezer was said to have committed the act while on guard duty at ...
7th May, 2012
Four females are among 144 convicts on the death roll, ASP Courage Atsem, the Chief Public Relations Officer (CPRO) of the Ghana Prisons , has revealed.
According to him, they had been convicted ...
4th May, 2012
An unwanted pregnancy which, police say, sent a husband into a rage to drive a knife through the stomach of his pregnant wife and stab their two children to death here yesterday, has surprised many ...
2nd May, 2012
The Chiefs and opinion leaders of the (Moshie Zongo Community in Kumasi have held crisis meeting to map up a strategy to help the police to track down on the group calling itself ‘Moshie Zongo ...
2nd May, 2012
The Accra Commercial Court has ruled that it has jurisdiction to hear a motion brought before it by the state seeking a review of a GHC 500 cost awarded against the state in the civil proceedings ...
2nd May, 2012
One person died on the spot and another at the Suhum Government hospital following a fatal accident that occurred at Manhyia junction near Suhum on Friday.
The Swaraj Mazda Super truck with ...
30th April, 2012
The Assemblyman for the Adweso-Abogiri electoral area, a suburb of Koforidua in the New Juaben Municipality of the Eastern Region, Mr.Dornelious Agbovor has handed over two mothers, Felicia Nomenyor, ...
26th April, 2012
State Attorneys are seeking a downward review of the GH¢500 cost awarded against the state for its failure to start prosecuting the case in which it is challenging the GHS 51.2 million judgement debt ...
26th April, 2012
A 42- year old man who used money in his care earmarked for the purchase of cocoa beans to buy a brand new car has been sentenced to 10 years imprisonment with hard labour for fraud and breach of ...
26th April, 2012
A Daewoo salon car said to belong to the medical director of a private hospital in the Ketu-South District, has been intercepted by customs officials at Dabala, with 29 compressed parcels of suspected ...