[ad_1] A 32-year-old accountant, Edward Unicorn, has been sentenced to two years in prison for dishonestly appropriating GHC40,433.50 from the Ghana Police Church. The Adentan Circuit Court presided over by Sedinam Awo Kwadam, convicted Unicorn on his own plea after he admitted to using the money to fund his online betting addiction. Unicorn’s journey…
[ad_1] A 20-year-old mechanic, Akwasi Agyeman, has been sentenced to 25 years imprisonment by the Asante Bekwai circuit court for attacking and raping a pregnant candidate in the ongoing West Africa Secondary School Certificate Examination (WASSCE). The victim, a 20-year-old student of the Bekwai SDA Senior High School, was eight months pregnant when the…
[ad_1] Three notorious carjackers who have terrorised residents of the Ashanti Region for years, have been handed a total of 345 years’ imprisonment term by the Asokwa Circuit Court presided over by Fredrick Obikyere. The arrest of the three convicted carjackers and their accomplices followed painstaking intelligence and relentless efforts by the police to…
[ad_1] Sedina Tamakloe Attionu The runaway former Chief Executive Officer of the Microfinance and Small Loans Centre (MASLOC), Sedina Tamakloe Attionu and Operations Manager, Daniel Axim, have been sentenced to a total of 15 years in prison for causing financial loss to the state. The two were dragged before the court in 2019 charged…
[ad_1] A mason apprentice, Ebenezer Kwayisi, has been sentenced to 30 years imprisonment by the Accra High Court for his role in the murder of a former law lecturer at the University of Ghana, Professor Emmanuel Yaw Benneh. The 28-year-old was slapped with the jail term by the court, presided over by Justice Mary Maame…
[ad_1] A 35-year-old labourer who sexually molested a five-year-old girl at Weija, in Accra, has been sentenced to one-year imprisonment by the Gender Based Violence Court. Charged with indecent assault, Moro Yusif pleaded guilty with an explanation. Yusif told the court that he was playing with the victim to aid his erection and placed her on his lap….
[ad_1] A farmer who defrauded a tailor of $9,000 under the pretext of securing him a United States of America visa but failed has been sentenced to a day’s imprisonment by an Accra Circuit Court. Dominic Ampea is to pay a fine of GHC3,600 in default serve 18 months imprisonment. The court ordered Ampea to…
[ad_1] A woman imprisoned for 20 years over the deaths of her four children, and pardoned in June, saw her convictions quashed by New South Wales state on Thursday, with her lawyer saying she plans to claim “substantial” compensation. Kathleen Folbigg was convicted in 2003 of murdering three of her children, and of manslaughter in…
[ad_1] A murderer who killed his mother in a “frenzied attack” has been jailed for life. Lewis Bush, 26, of Moorland Park, Newport, killed Kelly Pitt, 44 in a “ferocious and sustained assault” at her home and “fled the scene”. Ms Pitt was found by police at Sandalwood Court at about 11:30 on 12 May….
[ad_1] The Ho Circuit Court has sentenced two of the three suspects who were arrested by the Volta Regional Police Command for attempting to steal a transformer at Adaklu Tsrefe on October 5. The two Suspects, Sitsofe Agbodza 26 years and Deladem Kodzo Tsrakasu 29 years were sentenced to five years imprisonment each by the…
