Tech mogul Gurbaksh Chahal was sentenced to one year in prison Friday for violating his probation in a domestic violence case. Police say that security camera footage from 2013 shows Chahal beating and kicking his then-girlfriend 117 times and that the entrepreneur violated his parole by hitting another woman this year. Chahal earned fame when … Read more
A 26-year-old man, Wilfred Inacho, was sentenced to six strokes of the cane by a Gudu Upper Area Court sitting in Abuja, the Federal Capital of Nigeria, after he was dragged to the court for fondling a woman’s buttocks in public without her consent. Nigeria news wire reports that Inacho, a welder, who was charged … Read more
A 58-year-old man from the West African nation of Ghana will have an extended stay in Canada after accepting responsibility Friday for child pornography found on his cellphone as he entered the country. Thomas Aboagye Acheampong was arrested Monday at Halifax Stanfield International Airport after arriving on an Air Canada flight from London. Acheampong told … Read more
A 58-year-old man from the West African nation of Ghana will have an extended stay in Canada after accepting responsibility Friday for child pornography found on his cellphone as he entered the country. Thomas Aboagye Acheampong was arrested Monday at Halifax Stanfield International Airport after arriving on an Air Canada flight from London. Acheampong told … Read more
An Accra circuit court has sentenced the two men who attempted to rob a worker of the Koala Shopping Mall in Accra to 39 and 35 years each respectively in jail for robbery. The two, Stanley Obaliko and Okoe Quarcoe allegedly shot an employee, Lydia Horsu, of the Koala shopping Centre at Cantonments in January … Read more
The president may, acting in consultation with the Council of State – Grant pardon to persons convicted of an offence (Article 72, 1992 Constitution). Why is there a need for presidential pardon to start with? Why is there a need to pardon some, while others serve their full term? Is it not relative injustice to … Read more
Barcelona’s Argentinian soccer star Lionel Messi has been sentenced to 21 months in prison and fined 2 million euros ($2.2 million) after being found guilty of three counts of tax fraud, a court in the Spanish city said on Wednesday. The court handed the same jail sentence to the Argentine soccer player’s father, Jorge, and … Read more
A Washington state man was sentenced on Friday to eight years in prison for his role in helping the management of the successor website to Silk Road, an online black market where illegal drugs and other goods were sold. Brian Farrell, who prosecutors say was a staff member for Silk Road 2.0, was sentenced by … Read more
A magistrate court in Wassa Akropong in the Wassa Amenfi East District of the Western Region has sentenced two men to 24 months each in prison for possessing human bones. The two, Kwaku Donkor 32 and Abraham Baidoo 45 were arrested on Thursday by the Western Regional police when they attempted to sell the bones … Read more