Courts
Businessman sues Absa Bank contract staff for allegedly breaching agreement to marry him
In lieu of the proposed marriage, the Plaintiff, Mr Otoo, decided to sponsor her tertiary education, after which they would get married.
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Courts
Driver jailed 15 years for defiling 13-year-old stepdaughter
Joseph Yankson is said to have taken advantage of the absence of the victim’s mother and defiled her twice.
GNA
Europe
UK: Former solicitor jailed for defrauding clients of £1.7m ordered to pay back £3,000
The now struck-off solicitor, admitted in 2004, pleaded guilty to seven charges of fraud last year and was sentenced to 56 months’ imprisonment.
Law Society Gazette
Crime
Court convicts two over illegal abortion
The convicts, Charlotte Asiedu, who administered a concoction to the girl, was charged with the offence of committing illegal abortion whilst Tetteh, the victim’s boyfriend, was charged with abetment of crime.
GNA
Africa
Ugandan serial killer sentenced to 105 years in prison
Musa Musasizi was sentenced on Wednesday after pleading guilty to the murder of three women said to be his girlfriends and a three-month-old girl belonging to one of his victims.
BBC
Europe
UK court to consider whether universities owe students legal duty of care
The landmark hearing next month comes at a time of widespread concern about declining student mental health and a number of widely reported suicides
The Guardian
Europe
Italy mafia trial: 200 sentenced to 2,200 years for mob links
The three-year trial saw individuals, including a former Italian senator sentenced for alleged links to the 'Ndrangheta, one of Europe's most influential criminal organisations.
BBC
Europe
Benjamin Mendy suing Man City over unpaid wages
Mendy has filed the claim with the Employment Tribunal, claiming "unauthorised deductions from wages" after he was charged with rape and sexual assault in 2021; Mendy was found not guilty on all counts earlier this year
Sky Sports
Courts
62-year-old illegal miner jailed for pouring acid on former girlfriend
Records from the Tarkwa Local Prison, revealed that in 2012, Tandoh was sentenced to 16 years for a similar offence, but was discharged on Amnesty in June 2020 after serving eight years.
GNA
Africa
Ex-doctor on trial in France over Rwanda genocide
Sosthene Munyemana was a 29-year-old gynaecologist living in the south of Rwanda at the time of the 1994 genocide in which 800,000 people were killed.
BBC
Africa
Why South Africa regrets its liberal post-apartheid asylum laws
Home Affairs Minister Aaron Motsoaledi has announced plans to toughen asylum and immigration laws in a move that will have far-reaching consequences for foreign nationals
BBC
Africa
Burundi prosecutors seek life sentence for ex-Prime Minister
Mr Bunyoni’s trial started in September, a year after he was fired by President Evariste Ndayishimiye over suspicions that Mr Bunyoni was plotting a "coup" against him.
BBC
Others
Qatar sentences Indian ex-naval officers to death
The men were allegedly accused of "breaching sensitive secrets"
BBC
Africa
Nigerian doctor sentenced to life in prison for rape
Dr Olufemi Olaleye sexually assaulted the girl for more than a year until his wife found out and informed the police, the prosecutor said.
BBC
General
Coveted John Mensah Sarbah Prize: 7 KNUST Law alumni have won since 2012
The award, which is given yearly to the most outstanding fresh lawyer coming out of the Ghana School of Law, is named after John Mensah Sarbah, a prominent lawyer and political leader in the Gold Coast.
DL News
Africa
Burundi's sacked central bank chief arrested over money laundering accusations
The charges against Dieudonné Murengerantwari are "provisional" pending the outcome of investigations, the justice ministry said.
BBC
Europe
Cristiano Ronaldo faces new legal challenge from rape accuser over 2010 hush money deal
A woman accused Cristiano Ronaldo of raping her in Las Vegas in 2009, which he vehemently denied. A US judge last year threw out the civil lawsuit.
Sky News
General
Retract and apologize over ‘managing NIB via Zoom’ comment – NIB MD threatens to sue JoyFM, Adongo
Honourable Adongo is said to have indicated on the September 28 edition of the Top Story program hosted by Evans Mensah that Mr. Samuel Sarpong has zoom-managed the Bank for over a year from Canada.
DL News
Courts
Criminals roam free in Wales and England as Overcrowding in prisons affects sentences.
Judges and magistrates are giving people suspended sentences instead of immediate jail terms because of prison overcrowding
The Guardian
Crime
Probe launched into death of Afropop star MohBad
The 27-year-old singer, whose real name was Ilerioluwa Aloba, died a week ago in hospital in Lagos
BBC