By Mustapha K Darboe BELLINZONA, (Switzerland) Jan. 16, New Narratives/GNA – Two Gambian prison officers—Lamin Sanneh and Abdou Jammeh—Monday testified to torture, and poor…
Court & Crime
Content from law and order and from the Law Courts.
Labourer jailed eight years for defiling neighbour’s daughter
By Joyce Danso, GNA Accra, Jan. 15, GNA – The Gender Based Violence Court has sentenced Joseph Gyadu, aka Cudjoe to eight years imprisonment…
Two persons granted bail over alleged fraud
By Emelia Nkrumah/Patricia Boateng Accra, Jan. 15, GNA – Two persons, who allegedly took GH₵37,000.00 from a farmer under the pretext of supplying him…
Driver jailed 15 years for having sex with stepdaughter
By Joyce Danso, GNA Accra, Jan. 15, GNA – A 47-year-old driver who had sex with his 13-year-old stepdaughter at Tetegu in Accra, has…
Man jailed five years for electrical cable theft
By Erica Apeatua Addo Tarkwa (W/R), Jan. 15, GNA – A Tarkwa circuit court has sentenced a 25- year-old unemployed, Adjei Sowah, to five…
Witness tells Swiss Court Jammeh enforcer oversaw interrogation and torture
By Mustapha K Darboe BELLINZONA, (Switzerland) Jan. 14, New Narratives, GNA – Demba Dem, the fourth plaintiff in the crimes against humanity trial of…
Hairdresser, Electrician fined Gh¢4,800.00 each for aborting 17 weeks of pregnancy
By Isaac Arkoh Cape Coast, Jan. 12, GNA – The Assin Fosu Magistrate’s Court has sentenced a 40-year-old hairdresser and a 21-year-old Auto Electrician,…
Wamfie District Court jails two farmers for 44 months
By Robert Tachie Menson Wamfie (B/R), Jan. 12, GNA – A District Court at Wamfie in Dormaa East of the Bono Region has sentenced…
Timber merchant convicted for robbery
By Erica Apeatua Addo Tarkwa (W/R), Jan. 12, GNA – A 30-year-old timber merchant, who planned to rob a cocoa merchant at Obengkrom, near…
Traders on GHC40,000.00 bail over alleged fraud
By Gifty Amofa Accra, Jan.12, GNA - An Accra Circuit Court has granted two traders who allegedly defrauded a farmer, a GHC40,000.00 bail with two…
Mobile Banker jailed six years for forgery and Stealing GHC162,700
By Joyce Danso, GNA Accra, Jan. 12, GNA – An Adentan Circuit Court has sentenced a mobile banker to six years imprisonment for embezzling…
Scrap collector jailed for TV theft
By Gifty Amofa Accra, Jan.12, GNA – The Kaneshie District Court has sentenced a 25-year-old scrap collector to six months in prison for stealing…
Man allegedly commits suicide at Akatsi Wlitey-Dalikope
By Agbaxode Emmanuel Wlitey-Dalikope (V/R), Jan. 11, GNA – Residents of Wlitey-Dalikope in the Akatsi South Municipality of the Volta Region have been thrown…
Pastor in court over visa fraud
By Joyce Danso Accra, Jan. 11, GNA – A 47-year-old pastor who allegedly collected $32,084 and GHC13,760 from five persons under the pretext of…
Self-acclaimed welder jailed 20 years for theft
By Edward Williams, Hohoe (V/R), Jan. 10, GNA – A 37-year-old self-acclaimed welder, Bright Agra, has been sentenced to 20 years imprisonment the Hohoe…
Alleged wife killer arrested after failed suicide attempt at Dunkwa on-Offin
By Victoria Agyemang Dunkwa-Offin(C/R), Jan. 10, GNA – The Dunkwa Divisional Police has arrested one Ato Johnson who allegedly murdered his wife on Tuesday…
Three siblings die through poisonous chemical inhalation
By Muyid Deen Suleman Kumasi Jan. 10, GNA -Three siblings have died of suspected poisonous chemical inhalation in their room at Asawase in the…
Gardener to serve 24 years over sex with daughter
By Joyce Danso, GNA Accra, Jan. 9, GNA – A 53-year-old gardener who sexually abused his daughter for three years at Teiman, near Madina,…
Four illegal FX market operators caught, two convicted
Accra, Jan. 9, GNA – The Asokwa Circuit Court 2 in Kumasi has sentenced Senyah Poku and Yaa Serwaa of Senyah Poku Enterprise, an…
Two nabbed for pulling down storey building granted GHC700,000 bail
By Joyce Danso, Accra, Jan. 09, GNA- Two persons accused of causing damage to a three-storey uncompleted building at Roman Ridge in Accra have…