High Court sentences footballer to life imprisonment over 2021 gruesome killing of Abesim teenagers

The High Court in Accra has sentenced Richard Appiah, the footballer and draughtsman convicted of murdering two children in Abesim in the Bono Region, to life imprisonment. The sentence follows a unanimous guilty verdict by a seven-member jury on two counts of murder. The victims, aged 12 and 15, were killed in 2021 in a […]


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