Crime
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Two Junior High School pupils in police custody after assaulting headmistress
Two Junior High School pupils of Rev. Cobbah Yalley Junior High School at Newsite a suburb in the Effia-Kwesimintsim of the Western Region are in the grips of the Western Regional Police Command for …
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Ghana Police nab robbery gang’s supplier
The Criminal Investigations Department (CID) of the Ghana Police Service is investigating the alleged financier of five robbery gangs busted by the Service. Joseph Abrefa Ampah, 47, is said to allege…
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Brother of murdered #FixTheCountry campaigner, Kaaka arrested over his death
An elder brother of the late Ibrahim Mohammed aka “Kaaka”, a social media activist who was murdered by unknown assailants, has been arrested by the police. The suspect, Iddi Mohammed, 48, was picked …
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UK police officer jailed for eight years for killing ex-footballer Dalian Atkinson
A police officer who unlawfully killed Dalian Atkinson by tasering him to the ground and kicking him in the head has been jailed for eight years. PC Benjamin Monk was cleared of murder but convicted …
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‘Spiderman’ in police custody over the killing of 73-year-old man
The Sowutuom police command has arrested one Solomon Kwame Boadu in connection with the murder of a 73-year-old-man in the area. The police received a report from a complainant on Monday evening, 28t…
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Young man arrested over the impersonation of Finance Minister
21-year-old Sabastine Agbemabiese is in police grips for impersonating the Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta. The unemployed young man, according to myjoyonline took monies from victims to help them g…
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South Africa’s top court jails former president Jacob Zuma
South Africa’s highest court on Tuesday sentenced ex-president Jacob Zuma to 15 months in jail for failing to appear at a corruption inquiry, as Zuma appeared to run out of options in his battleto es…
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Two suspects charged in failed assassination of Ugandan minister
Two suspects were charged with murder and attempted murder on Monday over an assassination attempt on a Ugandan government minister in which the minister was wounded and his daughter and driver were …
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68-year-old man kills with marble chopping board over alleged ‘cheating’ text
A jealous man battered his wife to death with a marble chopping board after she signed off a text to their handyman with a kiss, a court has heard. The court heard how Leslie Winnister, 68, went to t…
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Man kills 3 women, injure others in a stabbing rampage in Germany
Authorities in Germany were investigating on Saturday what prompted a man to go on the rampage with a knife in the town of Wuerzberg on Friday, killing three women and seriously injuring five other w…