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  • Accountant jailed 2 years for stealing GHC40k from Police Church for betting

    Accountant jailed 2 years for stealing GHC40k from Police Church for betting

    An Adentan Circuit Court has sentenced a 32-year-old accountant, Edward Unicorn, to two years imprisonment for stealing GH₵40,433.50 from the Ghana Police Church.

    Unicorn admitted to misappropriating the church’s funds to finance his gambling addiction, particularly wagering on an online betting game known as Aviator.

    The accused pleaded guilty to the charge of stealing but offered an explanation for his actions. “I spent the money by playing Aviator. I staked it and never won. I was desperate to win but lost,” Unicorn confessed to the court, adding that his addiction led him to continuously gamble away the funds in hopes of a win.

    Unicorn further revealed that his brother had recommended a doctor at the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital to help him address his gambling addiction. However, despite contacting the doctor twice, he never followed through with a visit. “I put in the GH₵40,000 bit by bit. I was desperate to win,” he explained.

    The court, presided over by Mrs. Sedinam Awo Kwadam, convicted Unicorn on his own plea. He was ordered to pay GH₵5,000 in restitution, while an additional GH₵2,775, retrieved from him, was to be returned to the Ghana Police Church.

    Chief Inspector Anim Darko, the prosecutor, told the court that the complainant in the case is a police officer and the chaplain of the church. Unicorn had been employed as the church’s accountant and was responsible for handling its finances.

    Unicorn, in his plea for leniency, asked for bail so he could work and repay the stolen money, but the court, taking into account the severity of the offense, handed down a custodial sentence.

  • Man jailed 50 years for murdering 74-year-old woman

    Man jailed 50 years for murdering 74-year-old woman

    A 20-year-old man, Abdullah Mohammed, convicted of robbing and killing a 74-year-old stroke patient, Alice Kakari, in her home, has been sentenced to 50 years in prison for the robbery.

    The Kasoa Ofaakor Circuit Court, presided over by His Lordship Oheneba Kuffour, is concurrently trying him for the murder charge, for which he has been remanded.

    The prosecutor informed the court on January 25, 2024, that the convict robbed and killed Alice Kakari when she attempted to call for help.

    The suspect reportedly tied the woman with a rope, slit her neck, and looted her three-bedroom house, taking valuable items and an undisclosed amount of money.

    The tragic incident took place near the Ballon Hotel at Awutu Senya East in the Central region, with the suspect captured on CCTV installed in Alice Kakari’s home.

    Following the court proceedings, Gifty Obenewaa Yeboah, the deceased’s daughter, expressed mixed emotions, stating her happiness about the sentence but deep sorrow over the loss of her mother.

    She commented, “In fact, 50 years is enough because he has really caused us so much pain. We are also waiting for the murder case as well. He needs to be punished very well” she said.

  • Man jailed for life for stalking and trying to behead ex

    Man jailed for life for stalking and trying to behead ex

    A man who stalked his ex 130 miles before trying to behead her has been jailed for life after murdering her.

    Dennis Akpomedaye, 30, was given a minimum term of 29 years for the murder of 21-year-old Polish student Anna Jedrkowiak, known as Ania, in Ealing, west London in May last year.

    Judge Rajeev Shetty, sentencing at Kingston Crown Court, said the attack was ‘ferocious and savage.’

    He added: ‘There is no mitigation here, there is no evidence of a mental disorder or disability.’

    Akpomedaye tried to behead Anna Jedrkowiak just after midnight on May 17 last year, a court heard.

    (Picture: Met Police) A man who killed his former girlfriend in a brutal knife attack in South Ealing has been convicted of murder. Anna Jedrkowiak died after being found with multiple stab injuries in Roberts Alley, off Church Gardens, at approximately 00:10hrs on Tuesday, 17 May 2022. The 21-year-old, who was known to friends and family as Ania, had finished work at a restaurant in Ealing and was walking home with a friend when she was victim to the premeditated attack by her former boyfriend Dennis Akpomedaye. Akpomedaye was arrested within 22 hours of her murder as a result of fast time CCTV enquiries which tracked his movements, leading to recovery of evidence and DNA.
    Dennis Akpomedaye, 29, denied murder but was still convicted (Picture: Met Police)

    Ania, who had moved from Newport, in south Wales, to the capital to continue her studies, was walking home from the restaurant she worked at with her new boyfriend.

    When they got to Roberts Alley, in south Ealing, west London, Akpomedaye used a large kitchen knife to saw at Ania’s neck and ‘stabbed her several times in the stomach’, her partner said.

    This was ‘an apparent attempt to decapitate her’, prosecutor Deanna Heer KC previously told Kingston Crown Court. Paramedics were called but ‘it was not possible to save her life’.

    Akpomedaye ran away and was arrested 22 hours after he approached an ambulance worker to complain about an open wound to his fingers – which he claimed had been caused by a pitbull.

    The murder weapon was found in a pond in nearby Gunnerbury Park. Also found were his and Ania’s mobile phones and a photo frame with a picture of them together.

    During the trial, it came out that he had travelled to London Victoria on May 15 and then made his way to the restaurant where Ania worked.

    But she was not there and CCTV footage shows him pacing back and forth outside the venue with his face covered by a scarf. He then went to her home and ended up spending hours riding buses around Ealing.

    The next day, at 8pm, he bought a £4.99 knife from a local shop and paced outside Ania’s workplace again.

    When she and her new boyfriend left to head home, Akpomedaye followed them while wearing a balaclava and launched his terrifying attack.

  • Nigerian woman bails her abusive unemployed husband out of jail after being arrested for beating her to pulp

    A Nigerian woman has bailed her ‘abusive’ husband out of jail after he was arrested and detained for brutally beating her.

    A group, DPA Family Law Clinic, disclosed this in a Facebook post on Thursday, November 24.

     

    “We got her husband arrested and detained for beating her and doing this to her. His kinsmen refused to come to bail him out. They said he should die there. Guess who went behind us to bail him out? This is how the woman’s sister narrated it to us:

     

    “My sister paid 10k to bail the husband because his people refused to come. She said that even if they take man to court that he will still end up in prison and she can’t bear it. She had been the one paying all bills including rent because he’s not working.”

    Nigerian woman bails her abusive unemployed husband out of jail after being arrested for beating her to pulp

  • Billionaire Xiao Jianhua jailed for 13 years in China

    A Chinese-Canadian billionaire has been sentenced to 13 years in prison in China and his company fined more than $8bn (£6.7bn).

    Xiao Jianhua and his company Tomorrow Holdings were charged with embezzlement and bribery, a court in Shanghai said.

    Xiao – one of China’s richest people – was last seen being whisked away from a luxury hotel in Hong Kong in 2017.

    There had been no official word from him since, until the Canadian embassy said in July he would be facing trial.

    The trial was said to have started on 4 July.

    Xiao and his firm were found guilty of “illegally absorbing public deposits, breaching trust in the use of entrusted property… [and] illegal use of funds,” a statement from the Shanghai court quoted by AFP said. It also said Tomorrow Holdings was guilty of the “crime of bribery”.

    It added that Xiao and his firm had “severely violated the financial management order” and “hurt state financial security”.

    The court said Xiao and his company had pleaded guilty and had cooperated with authorities and so their punishment was mitigated.

    In July, the Canadian embassy said its diplomats had been denied access to the trial.

    Asked on Friday about Xiao’s right to access Canadian consular services as a Canadian citizen, China’s foreign ministry said China did not recognise dual citizenship and so Xiao was not entitled to such rights.

    Xiao reportedly had close connections to the upper echelons of the ruling Communist Party, including to President Xi Jinping’s family.

    By 2016, his net worth had grown to an estimated $6bn (£4.7bn) according to Hurun Report, a ranking of China’s wealthiest people.

    What happened to Xiao Jianhua?

    In 2017, Xiao was whisked away from the Four Seasons Hotel in Hong Kong, where he was understood to have been living at the time.

    His family filed a missing person’s report with Hong Kong authorities after he disappeared, but withdrew it a day later, saying they had “regained contact” with Xiao.

    Hong Kong police said surveillance footage at the scene showed Xiao did not leave the hotel under duress, but refused to release the footage.

    Xiao later issued a statement that was run on the front page of a popular newspaper saying he was receiving medical treatment abroad. He also praised the “rule of law” in China and said that he had not been kidnapped and taken to the Chinese mainland.

    His company also released statements on his behalf saying he was fine, though these were later removed.

    Source: BBC

  • Student jailed for extortion over policewomans nude pictures

    A Circuit Court in Accra has sentenced a 24-year-old student, Francis Aggrey, to three years imprisonment for extortion in his bid to circulate nude videos of his girlfriend, a policewoman.

    Aggrey, who was charged with two counts of conspiracy to crime and extortion, pleaded guilty.

    The court, presided over by Mr Emmanuel M. Essandoh, convicted Aggrey on his own plea and sentenced him to three years imprisonment on a charge of extortion. An accomplice, Christian Donkor, is at large.

    Prosecution, however, prayed the court that the police would need Aggrey to assist to apprehend his accomplice.

    The court, therefore, deferred its sentence on a charge of conspiracy.

    Detective Sergeant Frederick Sarpong told the court that Aggrey cited jealousy as reasons for extorting GHC3,000.00 from her girlfriend.

    The 24-year-old convict, according to the prosecution, suspected that the girl-friend was cheating on him, hence he plotted with Donkor, his accomplice, to extort GHC3,000.00 from her.

    Detective Sergeant Sarpong said the complainant, a policewoman, and Aggrey had been in an amorous affair for some time and on May 15, this year, Aggrey suspected she was cheating on him.

    The convict then created an online chatting account on Telegram with the name ‘Nana N’ and portrayed himself as another person and started chatting with the complainant.

    “In the course of the chatting, Aggrey posted the complainant’s nude pictures and videos to her and demanded an amount of GHC3,000.00 else he would circulate the pictures and videos on social media,” Detective Sergeant Sarpong said.

    Aggrey then forwarded the nude pictures and videos to Donkor to press on the complainant to pay the money and Donkor, on receipt of the nude pictures and videos, forwarded same to the complainant to hasten with the payment else he would circulate them.

    Prosecution said, the complainant reported the incident to her boss who disguised himself and chatted with the accused persons.

    During Donkor’s chat with the disguised boss, he (Donkor) gave the mobile money number 0595063915 to him to pay GHc1,500.00 on Friday, May 15, else he would circulate the nude videos.

    On the same day, the complainant’s boss made payment of GHc1,500.00 to Donkor through the said mobile money account. The boss, upon interrogation, suspected that Aggrey was behind the deal and asked the complainant to confront him.

    On May 18, this year, the complainant confronted Aggrey and he admitted and cited jealousy as his reason for doing that.

    Aggrey was arrested on May 19 and handed over to the Bureau of National Investigations and the National Security.

    During interrogation he mentioned Donkor as his accomplice, who efforts were being made to arrest.

    Source: GNA

  • Two jailed for stealing a motorbike

    A Takoradi Magistrate Court on Thursday sentenced two men to three months imprisonment each in hard labour for stealing the motorbike of a military officer.

    The two, Stephen Abaido 34 and John Abakah 28, both pleaded guilty and were convicted on their own plea.

    Prosecuting, Police Chief Inspector Bernard Paa Arhinsah told the court presided over by Mr Michael Ampadu, that the convicts and the complainant Mr Dunstan Wedam are residents of Kojokorom Zongo a suburb of Takoradi.

    The prosecution said on 15 May, 2020 at about 1830 hours the convicts broke into the complainant’s house and stole his Sony motorbike with registration number WR 909.

    Chief Inspector Arhinsah said the complainant who later detected the theft reported it to the police.

    He said during Police investigations, it was unraveled that the convicts broke into the complainant’s house and were subsequently arrested. He said during interrogation the two admitted the offense and were then processed for court.

    Source: GNA

  • Student caged 12 months for stealing mobile phone

    The Assin Fosu District Court has handed a 12-month jail term to a 22-year-old student for stealing a Nokia phone and GHC 140.00.

    James Nkyi pleaded guilty to the three counts of unlawful entry, stealing and possession of instruments intended for unlawful entry.

    Prosecuting, Inspector Gilbert Ayongo, told the Court presided over by Mr Abdul Majeed Illiasu that Mr Ebenezer Adze, the complaint is a resident of Mempeasem-Palaamu, whilst the convict lives at Dominase all in the Assin Fosu Municipality.

    The Prosecution said on Monday, May 4, at about 0830 hours, Mr Adze locked all outlets to his house and room and retired to bed.

    He said while in bed, at about 0130 hours, with lights out, Mr Adze however opened his living room door, stepped out to attend nature’s call.

    The Prosecution said the convict who had in his possession a kitchen knife, torch light, and a box of matches, lurking surreptitiously in the dark, entered the complainant’s room and stole his Nokia phone and 140 cedis.

    He said as the convict was about to exit the room with the booty, the complainant heard his footsteps quickly moved towards the door but sensing danger, the convict fell flat on the floor where the complainant’s wife and children were sleeping.

    According to the Prosecution, the complainant turned on the lights and saw the convict on the floor and so questioned his mission in his room.

    He said the convict told the complainant that he was from Obuasi and got stranded in Assin Fosu, hence his decision to pass the night in his room.

    The prosecution said the complainant thoroughly searched the convict and recovered his mobile phone and 140 cedis in his pocket and raised an alarm attracting other tenants of the house who arrested the convict.

    Source: GNA