Residents of Atwomanso near Oppong Valley in the Wassa Amenfi East District of the Western Region witnessed a horrifying scene last Sunday when a mentally challenged man beheaded and chopped his sister into pieces. The man, Yaw Annor, 65 has since been over powered and handed over to the police. According to the Western Regional Public Relations Officer (PRO) of the Ghana Police Service, Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP), Ms Olivia Ewurabena Adiku, the suspect, is {....}

A 32-year-old Corporal, Emmanuel Owusu-Yeboah, of the Ghana Air Force and other alleged accomplices, are in the grip of the police for their alleged involvement in a series of robberies in the Tarkwa area of the Western Region. The other suspects are Ahmed Edusah, 28 years old; Michael Tetteh, 32; Christian Obina Anomu, 32; Joseph Boafo, 25; Nana Yaw Tuffuor and Mark Lawrence Madugba Chison, 36. DCOP Alex Quainoo, Western Regional Police Commander who disclosed this {....}

The fate of 90 remand prisoners, locked up for years at the Sunyani Central Prisons will soon be known under the “Justice for All” programme. The suspects have spent between three and 16 years on remand for various crimes including murder, manslaughter, armed robbery and fraud. The Justice for All is a programme initiated by the Attorney General and the Ghana Prisons Service (GPS) which is aimed at ensuring legal justice is provided for every citizen, irrespective of one’s social {....}

A 22-year-old national of Gabon has been arrested on suspicion of stabbing an Ivorian to death at Weiman in Accra. John Maviane, a student of the Ambassador University College at Lapaz, is believed to have struggled with the 24-year-old Ivorian, Madeleine Josian E. Souaduo, before stabbing her in the abdomen several times. The police also discovered that the Ivorian was stabbed in the neck and right hand. Relating the incident, the Accra Regional Crime Officer, Chief Superintendent of {....}

Two soldiers who are alleged to have been arresting people falsely and taking money from them have been apprehended by the Kwabenya Police in Accra. At the time of their arrest, Lance Corporal Mark Gwura Forkes, 25, and Lance Corporal Dickson Ruben, 26, who claimed to be officers of the Tema Eastern Naval Command, were said to have collected GH¢2,508, €2,200, mobile phones and some personal belongings from their victims. Their accomplice, who has been identified only {....}

The hope of a former Member of Parliament (MP) of Nkoranza North in the Brong Ahafo Region, Mr Eric Amoateng, to enjoy his new found freedom in Ghana after his incarceration in Brooklyn, Eastern District of New York for heroin offences has been dashed. He was whisked away by officials of the Narcotics Control Board (NACOB) for a debriefing session as soon as he arrived at the Kotoka International Airport (KIA) on board a Delta Airlines flight from New York to Accra. More {....}

The police in Lagos have arrested the runaway boyfriend who took the life of Ms Njideka Lizzy Nzewe, the Managing Director of EDMARK. 31-year-old Kelechi Williams is said to have strangled his victim on July 19 in the Amuwo Odofin area of the state after which he escaped to Ghana with some of her belongings. In confessing to the crime, he said: “Lizzy was my girlfriend. I knew her three years ago. But we started getting serious in February this year. “I came back from Ghana to visit her {....}

A 33-year old Ghanaian federal immigration official, Samuel Nyanteng has been arrested in the US for submitting fraudulent documents and making false statements in order to illegally bring another person into the United States from Ghana. Nyanteng, was taken into custody at about 6 a.m. when detectives executed a search warrant at his Leslie Street home, according to the Essex County Prosecutor’s Office. Nyanteng has been charged with perjury, false swearing and conspiracy. Bail has {....}

A man who stabbed a friend to death after a failed romance with his sister has been jailed for life for his murder. Paul Mapps, 26, of Trinant, Caerphilly, stabbed Ian Davies, 27, with a kitchen knife at a house party in January. The court heard the men had been good friends but their relationship became "somewhat volatile" when Mr Davies starting dating Mapps' sister Dawn, 30. Mapps was found guilty by a majority verdict at Cardiff Crown Court. He attacked Mr Davies with a kitchen knife {....}

A 44-year-old electrician who is alleged to have repeatedly defiled his biological daughter for the past two years has been arrested by the police. The suspect, whose name was given as Solomon Addae Mensah, was arrested after the victim had confided in her class teacher about what she had been going through. The teacher, who heard the graphic details of the lewd acts and sexual abuse the junior high school (JHS) student had been going through, immediately informed the Kaneshie Division of the Domestic {....}

A mother has been jailed for having sex with her 12-year-old son – while her partner watched and directed her over a webcam. The woman wore headphones as she abused the boy in her bedroom as her lover viewed online from abroad. The boy told police how he could hear his 39-year-old mother being told what to do as she gave him a ‘sex lesson’. The offence came to light when the woman ‘blurted out’ that she had abused the older of her two sons while speaking to a domestic abuse charity about her partner {....}

Three police officers of the Upper West Regional Police Command were on Tuesday remanded into prisons custody by the Wa Circuit court presided over by His Honor Bright Issac Kwentey for allegedly defiling a 12-year-old primary six pupil. The three; Lance Corporal Joseph Kwakoh, Constable Appiah Donald and Constable George Tanoi are to reappear in court on July 31. At the court on Tuesday, Constable Appiah pleaded guilty to the offence while his two colleagues pleaded not guilty to the {....}

An Accra Circuit Court has sentenced Mohammed Mumuni, and Ali Mohammed, both porters to 15 years imprisonment for conspiracy to commit crime and 20 years for robbery. The sentences are to run concurrently. Initially, the two convicts pleaded not guilty to the charges. Chief Superintendent of Police Duuti Tuaruka told the court that the complainant, Ephraim Nii Ayi Otoo, is a Caterer whilst the accused persons live in the same vicinity at Russia, a suburb of Dansoman. He said on {....}

Until the arrest of 34-year-old Edward Kwabena Botri, residents of Mataheko in Accra had for the past three years mistaken him for a military officer. Not only did he parade as a military officer in the area, but he also threatened and harassed the residents and on a number of occasions assaulted some of them. The suspect, who was usually seen in a military uniform, is said to have always brandished a gun which he fired in the night and sometimes during the day. On Thursday, July 10, 2014, he cut {.....}

Two persons, including a self-acclaimed doctor, believed to be behind the production and sale of a herbal concoction laced with high doses of paracetamol and Nescafe have been arrested by the police. They are Dr Kwabena Takyi, the owner of Kwabena Takyi Herbal Clinic at Omanjor, near Ablekuma in Accra, and Ransford Asmah, 23, who acts as a sales agent for Takyi. After tracking the suspects and arresting them, the Sowutuom Police retrieved quantities of herbal preparations bearing different names {....}

THE MILE 7 Police have arrested a couple who allegedly beat their eight-year-old son to death on suspicion that he was a warlock who wanted to have sex with his mother The couple, after committing the heinous act, according to the police, secretly buried the boy in an abandoned dumping site near their house at Dome, a suburb of Accra. The suspects are Comfort Tene Abunbero, 26, a trader, and her husband Michael Kweku Obeng, 27, unemployed. They have been provisionally charged with [...]

An Accra Fast Track High Court, presided over by his Lordship Justice Mustapha Habib Logoh has sentenced Mr. Asem Darkey, popularly known as “limping man” to 22 years imprisonment. Mr. Darkey, an alleged drug baron involved in the disappearance of the 76 parcels of cocaine, appeared before the court in 2012 and was brought under five charges: conspiracy to import narcotic drugs, importation of narcotic drugs, possession of narcotic drugs[...]

A 25-year old boy simply known as Chidi but currently cooling his head off in a police cell as said yahoo boys have since left Yahoo Yahoo (a term used to defraud unsuspecting and naive people, especially foreigners, through the internet) for Yahoo plus as it no longer pays. He explained how he and his friends left Nigeria for a neighbouring country to meet an herbalist who gave them concoctions to use for their[...]