Human Rights Division of the High Court has adjourn judgment for the second time in the case involving a former Senior Police Officer, DSP Gifty Tehoda was linked to the disappearance of the cocaine and was interdicted and subsequently dismissed from the Police Service The Presiding Judge, Justice Gifty Adjei Addo, who set Thursday, March … Read more
Former All Black Ali Williams and Australian international James O’Connor were arrested in Paris on Saturday in possession of cocaine, police said. The pair, currently playing for French clubs Racing 92 and Toulon respectively, were stopped at around 3:00 am (0200 GMT) outside a nightclub near the city’s Champs Elysees avenue and found to be … Read more
A Human Rights court has slated March 16 to deliver judgement in the case of Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) Gifty Mawuenya Tehoda the embattled police officer in the cocaine turned baking soda case in 2011. This was after the court had granted an application by DSP Tehoda’s lawyers to adopt proceedings including addresses before … Read more
A Human Rights court presided over by Justice Gifty Adjei has set March 16 to deliver its judgment in the case involving a former senior police officer DSP Gifty Tehoda. The case involving DSP Tehoda began on September 27, 2011, when one Nana Ama Martins was arrested for possessing large parcels of substance suspected to … Read more
A university has been fined after two students suffered “life-threatening” effects when they were given 100 times too much caffeine in an experiment. Northumbria University told Newcastle Crown Court it was “deeply, genuinely sorry” as it was fined £400,000. Sports science students Alex Rossetta and Luke Parkin were each given the equivalent of 300 cups … Read more
Kan Dapaah, National Security Minister-designate denies claims of averting a cocaine haul in Ghana during his tenure as a minister in Kufour’s administration. His comments were in response to a petition sent by a member of the general public to Parliament’s Appointment Committee. A memorandum submitted to the committee accused Kan Dapaah of not doing … Read more
George Michael’s childhood friend Andros Georgiou has linked the singer’s death to drugs. “Hard drugs had been back in his life,” he told the BBC’s Victoria Derbyshire programme, adding that crack cocaine was one of Michael’s “favourite drugs”. Mr Georgiou grew up with Michael and the two referred to each other as cousins. He added: … Read more
A Ghanaian, Chigozie Francis Christopher, is under lock and key in India for allegedly possessing 11 grams of cocaine illegally. According to the Central Crime Branch of India, the 37-year-old was nabbed on Monday at a town called Lobo Lane in Mallikatte upon a tip-off as Christopher was hunting for customers for the cocaine. The … Read more
Fifteen men have been charged after police said they made the biggest cocaine bust in Australia’s history. The drugs, with an estimated street value of A$360m (£212m; $258m), were uncovered after a police investigation over more than two years. Police said they seized 500kg (1,100lb) of cocaine from a boat in Brooklyn, north of Sydney, … Read more
Fifteen men have been charged after police said they made the biggest cocaine bust in Australia’s history. The drugs, with an estimated street value of A$360m (£212m; $258m), were uncovered after a police investigation over more than two years. Police said they seized 500kg (1,100lb) of cocaine from a boat in Brooklyn, north of Sydney, … Read more
A fugitive drug lord who plotted to smuggle 400 kilos of cocaine into the UK in frozen Argentinian beef “lived like an African King”. David McDermott, 43, married the daughter of the governor of Ghana’s Central Bank and enjoyed a life of luxury during three years on the run. The dad-of-six was captured in Accra, … Read more
A fugitive drug lord who plotted to smuggle 400 kilos of cocaine into the UK in frozen Argentinian beef “lived like an African King”. David McDermott, 43, married the daughter of the governor of Ghana’s Central Bank and enjoyed a life of luxury during three years on the run. The dad-of-six was captured in Accra, … Read more
David McDermott, the British in-law of the former governor of the Bank of Ghana, has been jailed for 13 years following his extradition from Ghana to the UK earlier this year. McDermott initially failed in a bid to avoid extradition and was hauled back to Britain, where he was yesterday jailed by the Liverpool Crown … Read more
Sitting on a nine-hour flight from Thailand to Australia can be uncomfortable at the best of times. Now imagine doing that with 110 bags of drugs hidden in your digestive tract. A 48-year-old Australian man smuggling 1.1 kilograms (2.4 pounds) of cocaine in his stomach admitted he was carrying the drugs to police at Sydney … Read more