The Court of Appeal in Accra has acquitted and discharged Yaw Asante Agyekum, who was convicted in 2002 as an alleged accomplice of Ghana’s most notorious armed robber, Ataa Ayi. Agyekum had served 23 years of a 35-year sentence for conspiracy to commit robbery before the court ruled that he had been wrongfully convicted. The […]
The Police Administration has mounted a manhunt for four suspected robbers behind the killing of a policeman at Ablekuma in the Ga West Municipality in the Greater Accra Region. The alleged robbers killed the policeman yesterday in broad daylight. The policeman, who a source at the Ghana Police Service named as Lance Corporal Calystus Amoah, […]
An Accra Circuit Court has remanded the four policemen and one civilian arrested in connection with the recent bullion van robberies in Accra. The suspects are Constable Affisu, Yaro Ibrahim, Constable Richard Boadu, Constable Rabiu Jambedu, Constable Albert Ofosu and Razak Alhassan (a civilian). Ibrahim and Ofosu have been charged with an attempt to commit robbery […]
