A 25-year-old labourer, Isaac Odai Afotey, has been remanded in police custody by an Accra Circuit Court after allegedly attempting to rape a victim following a robbery. Afotey is accused of stealing an iPhone X worth GHC5,500 from the victim, whose name has not been disclosed. In addition to that, he allegedly robbed another victim, […]
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The Kwahu Nkwatia Divisional Police Command is on the hunt for three male students from Mpraeso Senior High School in the Kwahu South Municipality. These students are suspected to have been part of a group of eight who allegedly raped a female student on Sunday, October 13. While five suspects have already been detained and
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A court in Tanzania’s capital has sentenced four men to life imprisonment for the gang rape and sodomy of a girl under the age of 18 in a case which caused outrage in the country. Among the convicts are Clinton Damas, a soldier with the Tanzania People’s Defence Force, and Praygod Mushi, a prison officer.
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A soldier has been detained over an accusation of raping an 18-year-old hotel attendant. The incident reportedly happened on Monday [September 2, 2024] at about 3pm at a guest house at Soe, a suburb of Bolgatanga in the Upper East Region. The 18-year-old victim is said to have run to a nearby house to raise
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A 20-year-old mechanic, who attacked and raped a pregnant candidate in the ongoing West Africa Secondary School Certificate Examination (WASSCE), has been sentenced to 25 years imprisonment by the Asante Bekwai circuit court. Akwasi Agyeman was said to have broken into the room of the 20-year-old victim, who was eight-month-old pregnant and student of the
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Three friends who allegedly robbed an illegal miner and raped his fiancée have been remanded into police custody by the Enchi District Magistrate Court. They are Alex Obeng alias Power Money, 24, illegal miner; Ransford Osei Coffie alias King/Anointing, 29, driver; and Johnson Adu alias Black Nana, 24, gold buyer. Obeng, Coffie and Adu are
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Disgraced Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein’s 2020 rape conviction in New York has been overturned, on the basis that he did not receive a fair trial. The New York Court of Appeals said prosecutors in the pivotal #MeToo case called witnesses whose accusations were not part of the charges against him. The court said that meant
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The majority of judges on a Brazilian court ruled on Wednesday to uphold an Italian court’s rape conviction for former AC Milan and Brazil striker Robinho, adding he must serve the nine-year prison sentence in Brazil. Judges on Brazil’s Superior Court of Justice voted 9-2 to validate the conviction of the former Real Madrid and
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Former Brazil international football player Robinho has been arrested to serve a nine-year prison sentence for rape. He was convicted two years ago in Italy for his part in the gang rape of an Albanian woman at a night club in Milan in 2013. Robinho, 40, was arrested at his flat in his home city
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Court in Barcelona finds former Brazil player guilty of sexually assaulting a young woman at a nightclub in 2022 The former Brazil footballer Dani Alves was found guilty of sexually assaulting a young woman and sentenced to four years, six months in prison on Thursday. The ruling by three-judge panel in a Barcelona court followed
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