Courts and Crime

Man Jailed 51 Years For Snatching A Taxi At Knife-Point
17th February, 2012
A Kumasi Circuit Court has sentenced a driver to 51 years imprisonment in hard labour for snatching a taxi armed with a knife. Bismark Dwomoh also known as, “Yaw Baah” pleaded guilty to charges ...
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Unemployed Jailed 10 Years For Stealing
17th February, 2012
HENRY Kesson, unemployed, who stole a quantity of cables belonging to the Ghana Railway Company in June last year, has been jailed 10 years in hard labour, by a Takoradi Circuit Court. \'\'I plead ...
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Parliament Ratifies UN Convention Against Transnational Organised Crime
14th February, 2012
Ghana has now join the international committee to promote the prevention and combating transnational organised crime. This follows the ratification by Parliament last Wednesday of the United ...
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Pastor Jailed For Having Sex With Sheep
14th February, 2012
A 20-year-old pastor at Asikasu in the Sunyani Municipality, was Monday jailed seven years following his stunning admission to a Circuit Court at Fiapre here that he had sex with a pregnant ...
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Court Dismisses Woyome\'s Motion
14th February, 2012
An Accra Fast Track High Court yesterday dismissed the motion by Alfred Agbesi Woyome that sought to pin down the Economic and Organised Crime Organization (EOCO) from investigating the payment of ...
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Four Receive Gunshot Wounds In Buipe
11th February, 2012
Four persons yesterday sustained gunshot wounds at Buipe in the Central Gonja district of the Northern Region. The victims, were believed to have been ambushed were sympathizers of the embattled ...
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Woyome\\\'s Lawyers Not Served With Statement Of Defence Filed By EOCO
9th February, 2012
The Accra Fast Track High Court yesterday, could not hear a motion brought before it by Alfred Agbesi Woyome, to restrain the Economic and Organised Crime Organisation (EOCO) from investigating the ...
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Cleaner Sentenced To 15 Years Imprisonment For Stealing
9th February, 2012
A Kumasi Circuit Court presided over by Mr. Emmanuel Amo-Yarteh last Tuesday sentenced a 27-year old cleaner, Nestor Adongo to 15 years in hard labour for stealing. The items he stole included a ...
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Kumasi Court Issues Bench Warrant For Robber
8th February, 2012
A Kumasi circuit court has issued a bench warrant for the arrest of a 25 year old man for alleged armed robbery. Aziz Abdulai, a driver of the Quan Pin Ghana Company Limited, at Obuasi was said to ...
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Shoplifting Syndicate Busted In Lome
7th February, 2012
Ghanaian and Togolese security agencies are investigating a shoplifting syndicate busted in Lome last Friday.         Sunday Obi, 35, a Nigerian, suspected to be the leader of the criminal ...
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Police Intercepts Cargo Of Indian Hemp
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 ...
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School Drop-out Jailed 10 Years
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 ...
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26 Arrested For Illegally Possessing Arms
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 ...
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Boy, 4, Found Dead In A Refrigerator
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 ...
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Trader Goes In For 15 Years For Stealing
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 ...
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WR Police Hunt For Two Robbers
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 ...
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A-G Challenges Woyome’s Gh¢52m Consent Judgement
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 ...
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Farmer, 48, Kills Himself
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 ...
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Illegal Miners Remanded In Prison Custody
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 ...
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Ex-Convict Jailed 50 Years For Robbery
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 ...
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