A man alleged to be mentally deranged has killed his father at Brepaw a farming community in the Upper Manya Krobo District of the Eastern Region.
The incident occurred Friday, April 10, 2020.
The suspect Kofi Felix believed to be in his 30s was overpowered by angry residents in the community after the gruesome act and was nearly lynched having beaten him to a pulp.
The body of the deceased has been taken to the Asesewa Government Hospital Morgue.
The suspect is in the custody of Asesewa Police assisting with investigations.
A 50-year-old farmer has been found dead on his farm at Kraboa Coaltar in the Ayensuano District of the Eastern Region.
The deceased identified as Emmanuel Mensah Agboti, left home on Wednesday, April 8, 2020, to spray weedicide in his farm but did not return.
He was found dead Thursday morning during a search for his whereabouts.
Preliminary investigations by the local Police suggest he might have been strangled to death by unknown assailants.
Starr News has gathered that the deceased and his in-laws were litigating over a piece of farmland which belongs to his wife.
He is reported to have been warned by his in-laws to stop cultivating on the said land which he refused.
Before his death, some unknown persons set fire into his harvested maize.
Wife of the deceased left home two weeks ago to trade at a local food market centre but has since not returned.
Some Residents in Kraboa Coaltar allege the latest incident brings to four incidents of people dying in such mysterious circumstances within six months in the community.
Twelve people in Ngoma, Kayonza, Gatsibo, Huye, Nyanza, Nyaruguru and Rutsiro districts were this week arrested by Police having been found with a combined 1,910 litres of assorted illicit drinks which they were distilling, selling and consuming.
The suspects were arrested in separate operations conducted by law enforcers in different parts of the country in line with fighting trafficking, distilling, selling and abusing narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances.
The operations were also part of the efforts by Police to enforce government measures aimed at preventing the spread of coronavirus.
John Bosco Kabera, the Spokesperson of Rwanda National Police, told The New Times that the arrested were also found sharing traditional straws as they drank the brew.
Kabera reminded the public that such behaviour is dangerous, especially in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic, which can also be spread through the shared materials.
Rwanda has so far confirmed 40 cases of people infected with COVID-19, a pandemic that is menacing many countries across the globe.
The government has since last week imposed a lockdown all over the country for two weeks as a measure to curb the spread of the virus. People are strongly advised not to leave their homes and also avoid big gatherings.
As part of the measures, schools, churches, among other gatherings were temporarily suspended.
The James Town police have apprehended one Abubakar AbdulGaniu for allegedly stabbing his friend to death.
The suspect allegedly stabbed 34-year-old Kwasi Kloutse in the chest after a misunderstanding had ensured between them.
According to witnesses, the suspect after stabbing Kloutse attempted to escape but some angry traders grabbed him and handed him over to the James Town police.
It is, however, unclear the circumstance that led to the deadly incident but witnesses claimed they suspected it bordered on a business-related issue.
The Accra Regional Police Public Relations Officer, Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) Effia Tenge, confirmed the incident and said it occurred on Monday at about 5:30pm at a spot near old Fadama.
She said when the police arrived at the crime scene, Kloutse, dressed in a black long-sleeved shirt over a pair of black jeans trousers with a backpack, was lying in a supine position, but was dead.
She said the victim had a deep wound in the middle of the chest with blood still oozing and it appeared he had been stabbed.
She said there were also two fresh minor cuts on the left side of the chest of the victim.
A Cape Coast Circuit Court has sentenced Isaac Mensah, a 24-year-old traditional medicine practitioner (Herbalist) to five years imprisonment in hard labour for possessing a human skull and possessing fake currency.
Mensah, pleaded not guilty to the charge of possessing human parts but the court, presided over by Mrs Dorinda Arthur Smith found him guilty after trial and was convicted accordingly.
Police Sergeant Iddrissu Yakubu who prosecuted, told the court that the complainant, Evans Boakye, a mobile money merchant is a resident at Brimso- Apewosika while Mensah is a known herbalist who resides at Ankaful, a suburb of Cape Coast.
He said on Tuesday, March 12, 2019, Mensah gave out fake GH¢500.00 currency notes to one Emmanuel Akonnor for a service rendered.
Sergeant Yakubu said Akonnor unknowingly took the money to a mobile money merchant to deposit into his wallet but the merchant, upon suspicion that the money could be fake, called for his arrest.
He said during investigations, Akonnor mentioned Mensah as the one who gave the money to him to settle his debt.
Mensah was subsequently arrested and a human skull was found in his room during a search.
According to Sergeant Yakubu, Mensah claimed ownership of the human skull but could not tell how he got it.
He said the fake currencies has since been forwarded to Bank of Ghana (BoG) of which a report is being awaited.
Image copyrightMET POLICEImage captionMohammed Abdul Shakur murdered his wife and their two children before fleeing to Bangladesh
An abusive husband who fled the country after murdering his estranged wife and their two daughters has been jailed.
Mohammed Abdul Shakur, 46, killed Juli Begum, 26, and his two young children Anika and Thanha Khanum at their east London home on New Year’s Day 2007.
Shakur, who was extradited from Bangladesh in April, had a history of rape and violence against his wife, the Old Bailey heard.
He was jailed for life, with a minimum prison term of 40 years.
After the murders, Shakur fled to his home country of Bangladesh where he confessed his crimes to his sister-in-law, warning her: “If you tell the police I will murder you and your children.”
He later moved to India, illegally, and went to ground for several years before his whereabouts became known.
Image copyrightMETROPOLITAN POLICEImage captionMohammed Abdul Shakur showed little emotion as the judge returned his sentence
The three bodies were found at the family home in Nelson Street, East Ham, on 10 January after Ms Begum’s sister raised the alarm, the court heard.
The body of 4ft 8in Ms Begum was discovered beneath a bedcover with Anika laid across her and Thanha nearby.
Anika, five, had been strangled with a white sock after being “stunned” by a punch or slap to the face, while her six-year-old sister suffered severe blows to the face that fractured her skull.
Their mother was believed to have been smothered with a soft pillow or cushion.
‘Wicked attack’
The couple had an arranged marriage when Ms Begum was 19, but Shakur had repeatedly been violent towards his wife and did not like their children much because they were not boys, the court heard.
Sentencing Shakur, Judge Richard Marks QC said: “This was a wicked, vicious and sustained attack on two little girls, and on your wife, who at 4ft and 8in was a tiny woman.
“You, to this day, have not shown one iota of remorse for what you did.”
The judge sentenced him to a 40-year jail term, less the six years, six months and six days already spent in custody in India and the UK.
In a statement, Ms Begum’s sister Sheli said: “[The murder] has destroyed my life – I cannot watch the television or see a film without something triggering back to what happened.
