An Accra Circuit Court has fined a 22-year-old driver 100 penalty units, or GHC1,200.00, for stealing a banker’s tricycle worth GHC14,000.00. Eric Ofosu Mensah was found guilty and sentenced accordingly. The court, presided over by Mrs Kizita Naa Koowaa Quarshie, said Mensah would serve a six-month jail term in hard labour if he defaulted on […]
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A Tarkwa circuit court has sentenced Albert Ankomah, a 24 -year-old small scale miner, to 10 years imprisonment in hard labour for stealing. Ankomah, popularly known as ‘Paa Yaw or Simple,’ broke into two homes and made away with mobile phones and other household items. He pleaded guilty after being charged with causing unlawful damage, unlawful entry
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Daniel Kuatusah, a professional teacher at the Akatsi RC Basic School, has been jailed 12 years in hard labour for defiling a 13-year-old junior high school girl. Kuatusah, 30, who taught Basic Design and Technology before his arrest, was sentenced by the Sogakope Circuit Court on Tuesday, March 26, charged with defilement of a child
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Sam Bankman-Fried, co-founder of the failed crypto exchange FTX, has been sentenced to 25 years in prison for defrauding customers and investors of his now-bankrupt firm. The ruling cements the downfall of the former billionaire, who emerged as a high profile champion of crypto before his firm’s dramatic collapse in 2022. He was found to
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A 24-year-old Cleaner (now 30) who is said to have stabbed her boyfriend over a misunderstanding of a mobile phone has been convicted and sentenced to four years in jail for manslaughter. Linda Wodalor pleaded guilty to manslaughter instead of murder after activating Section 239 of Act 30 which allows an accused to plead guilty
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A District Court at Awutu Breku has remanded into police custody a 22-year-old electrician who allegedly raised false alarm that his penis shrunk at Millenium City, Kasoa. Michael Nelson is being held over publication of false news and causing unlawful harm. Nelson is said to have raised alarm falsely that his penis was shrunken and
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Numo Frederick Tawiah Tetteh Adeyena, a traditional ruler, has appeared before an Accra Circuit Court for allegedly defrauding a Chinese company of GHC360,000. Numo Adenyena is alleged to have collected the money under the pretext of selling four acres of land at Tsopoli to the Company, but failed. Charged with attempt to commit crime namely
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The swift intervention of some Nyamesom miners near Kwabenakwa averted a robbery attack at a mining site in Obuasi. A soldier was allegedly arrested in connection with the robbery attempt whilst three of his alleged accomplices escaped. Lance Corporal Eric Opoku of the Airborne, Tamale, together with his colleagues, one of whom he mentioned as
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The Kweikuma Gender Circuit Court in Takoradi has sentenced a 31-year-old Nigerian to 10 years in prison for trafficking four females from Onitsha, Anambra State into the country. The convict, Okolo Chukwukadibia Jackson, who entered the country illegally, is said to have recruited a 16-year-old among the victims under the guise of sending her to
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The Tamale District Court in the Northern Region has remanded four accused persons into police custody over the murder of Abbas Baba Barnabas, also known as Biggie, a soya bean dealer in the region. The late Baba Barnabas, 39, a resident of Tamale, was allegedly killed by a gang while he was en route to
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