Tag: sentenced
Australian right-wing extremist sentenced to 12-year jail over terror plot
An Australian man who planned acts of terrorism on "Muslims and lefties" in the city of Melbourne was sentenced to 12-year jail on...
Man jailed 20 years for defiling five-year old
A Circuit Court in Accra has sentenced a 38-year old welder to 20 years imprisonment for defiling a five-year old girl in a car...
Terrorists behind Mali hotel, restaurant attacks sentenced to death
A court in Mali has sentenced to death two terrorists for their involvement in 2015 attacks on a hotel and restaurant in Mali, the...
Two friends convicted for robbery
Maxwell Takyi alias Capee and Adu James alias Agya Koo, have been sentenced to a total of 30 years imprisonment by the Tarkwa Circuit...
Musician sentenced for lottery fraud
Reuben Abusah alias Last Burial, a 20-year-old musician and a resident of Akatsi in the Volta Region, has been sentenced by the Ho Circuit...
Former Shaanxi vice governor sentenced to 13 years in jail for accepting bribes
Chen Guoqiang, former vice governor of northwest China's Shaanxi Province, was on Tuesday sentenced by a local court in north China's Tianjin Municipality to...
Christchurch mosque gunman sentenced to life imprisonment in New Zealand
The gunman of last year's terrorist attack on two Christchurch mosques in New Zealand was sentenced to life imprisonment, the High Court announced on...
Mexican drug cartel leader sentenced to 50 years in prison for murder of journalist
A federal judge in the northern Mexican state of Chihuahua has sentenced an organized crime leader to 50 years in prison for the murder...
Brother of Manchester Arena bomber sentenced to at least 55 years in prison
Hashem Abedi, brother of Manchester Arena bomber, was sentenced to at least 55 years in prison, the BBC reported Thursday.
Abedi helped...
Unemployed jailed 30 days for causing harm
An Accra Circuit Court on Wednesday sentenced Irene Aloko, a 21-year-old unemployed to 30-days imprisonment in hard labour for administering several fist blows on...
Driver jailed five years for fraud
Bright Sarkodie, a driver has been sentenced to five years imprisonment by an Accra Circuit Court for defrauding a man of GH¢450,000.00 under the...
Washing bay attendant gets five years over narcotic drugs
A Cape Coast Circuit Court has sentenced a 22 year old washing bay attendant to five years imprisonment in hard labour for possessing narcotic...
Food vendor sentenced for preparing food near a public toilet
Georgina Osei, a food vendor in Hohoe has been sentenced to a fine of GH¢720.00 by the Hohoe Magistrate Court for preparing food...
Tenant sentenced for indiscriminate disposal of human excreta
The Hohoe Magistrate Court has sentenced Beatrice Gbolonyo, a tenant to a fine of GH₵420.00 for indiscriminate disposal of...
Man, 26, gets five years for stealing
A Ho Circuit Court presided over by Mr Felix Datsomor has sentenced Teye Akwada, a.k.a Derrick Klu, 26, to five years imprisonment in hard...
Trump’s confidant Roger Stone sentenced to 40 months in prison
Roger Stone, U.S. President Donald Trump's longtime confidant, was sentenced on Thursday to 40 months in prison for lying to Congress and witness tampering...
“I have sinned against the state” – musician tells court
A 27-year-old musician has been sentenced to six years imprisonment in hard labour for stealing items and cash belonging to a soldier and his...
Herbalist jailed five years for possessing human parts
A Cape Coast Circuit Court has sentenced Isaac Mensah, a 24 year old traditional medicine practitioner (Herbalist) to five years imprisonment in hard...
Court incarcerates driver for defilement
An Accra Circuit Court on Friday sentenced Anthony Nii Aryee, a 52-year-old driver to ten years imprisonment in hard labour for defiling a...
Farmer, 53, sentenced for assaulting another farmer
The Hohoe Magistrate Court has sentenced Felix Kofi Mogadzi, a 53 year-old farmer to a fine of GH₵300.00 for assaulting another farmer. Felix pleaded...
Chinese scientist who edited genes of babies gets 3 years in jail
A Chinese court on Monday sentenced a scientist who claimed to have produced gene-edited babies to three years in prison and fined about $430,000...
South African national sentenced to 7 years for cocaine smuggling in Ethiopia
The Ethiopia Federal High Court on Thursday sentenced a South African national to seven years in prison for smuggling cocaine drugs into Ethiopia.
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Student jailed and fined over drugs
An Accra Circuit Court has sentenced a 22-year-old student, who was caught with five wrappers of cannabis to one-month imprisonment.
The Court also ordered...
Brother of Iranian president sentenced to 10 years in prison
The brother of Iranian President Hassan Rouhani was sentenced to five years in prison for corruption, state news media reported.
"Hossein Fereydoun was sentenced to...
73-year-old Nigerian nanny sentenced to 15 years over death of baby
A Nigerian grandma whose actions led to the death of an 8-month-old baby in the U.S state of Maryland, has been sentenced to 15...
Taylor Swift’s Stalker has no regrets for breaking into her house
Roger Alvarado reached a plea deal on Monday (01.04.19) in which he accepted a charge of criminal contempt and agreed to abide by an...
2 sentenced for swindling a barber
Two unemployed men who allegedly defrauded a barber under the pretext of purchasing his Chevrolet Malibu Saloon car valued at Ghc100,000, but bolted with...
IT Specialist sentenced 10-years
A Circuit Court in Accra on Thursday sentenced an Information Technology (IT) Specialist to 10 years imprisonment on the charge of preparation to commit...
2 drivers handed 40 years jail term for robbery
Two drivers, who conspired to assault and robbed a taxi driver of his cab were on Wednesday sentenced to a total of forty years...
Israeli Former Minister Gets 11-Years Sentence for Spying
An Israeli court sent on Tuesday a former minister to 11 years in prison after finding him guilty of spying on behalf of Iran.
The...