Ghanaian jailed for sexual indecency

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  • kotoua selira 12 years ago

    A lot of these things happen in UK.It was not that he asked her for sex or tried to rape her or spoke to her in a sexual way that was like he offendered her.some times the trains are jammed packed that it is not easy to stand ...
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  • Kwesi dzinpa 12 years ago

    If you are walking and your hand touch someone you can be jailed...hahahaha.. This is called land of freedom or what? was the woman also not touch him? why didnt she tell him? like hey you are touching me?? some country and s ...
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  • Lawson 12 years ago

    This is the son of late Sqadron Leader Clend Sowu . Don't give the impression that he had no farther !,

  • Afia T, London 12 years ago

    This kind of behavior is common among Ewe men, I hope this stupid Julius Sowu guy is not an Ewe, if he is, then Ewe men must be excommunicated from Ghana, they are too disgracing everywhere. Kwbotwe must be a useless school i ...
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  • AFIA WHO? 12 years ago

    Kumasi residents condemn macho rapist
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    Some residents in Kumasi have described as callous and barbaric the conduct of a heavily built ...
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  • Gatro 12 years ago

    The guy who raped a lady in Public in Kumasi is also an Ewe guy who took Ashanti name to boost his reputation just like many Ewes in Kumasi.

  • ZoRRo 12 years ago

    I know this fine gentleman and think that he might be going through some mental stress or malfunction, leading to this behaviour. I urge his family to go and get him after serving the sentence, and bring him home to Ghana. Th ...
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  • Raymond Agbeli 12 years ago

    Why should one adopt ashanti name to boost reputation.what's in ashanti name that can boost one's reputation?backward and meaningless ashanti name?every Ewe name has a direct meaning.

  • ranger 12 years ago

    Sowu, is trokosi Ewe pleeeeeaaaaase !!!

  • Kojo T 12 years ago

    So Sowu is Ewe. When failures and never do wells like you can only rejoice because of failures of others , you wonder why you are a failure. Wish people evil and you become the victim . You have nothing to celebrate in your l ...
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  • Vodoo Xebieso 12 years ago

    Yes, Sowu is from my stock and I stand by him. You idiots fond of raping giant she-apes in your forests can go and drown yourself in Lake Bosomtwi. I don't give a hoot.

  • Abrekyie ba UK 12 years ago

    Thanks be to JJ who brought tribalism in Ghana,be4 Ghana never know tribalism,from Osagyefuo through Kutu & Dr Lemann nothing like tribalism,Ashanti's loves all that is why blessings of God still on us,it pays to an Ashanti, ...
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  • Zaman 12 years ago

    The Editor of this site seems to be very uneducated. If a 53 y.o British Citizen/Ghanian is charged...regardless of where his parents are from....his High School is not what is important nor his tribe either. Tribalism is get ...
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  • sam 12 years ago

    it will be stupid to relate this act to tribe.think well next time.

  • SON OF EWE 12 years ago

    EWES ARE NOT GOOD

  • Vodoo Xebieso 12 years ago

    Ewes are not good which explains why they sport bolobolo. Swine like you!!!

  • Zaman 12 years ago

    People like you disgrace Ghana. That is the plain truth. Grow up.

  • Raymond Agbeli 12 years ago

    When u count the number of rapist in ghanaian jails u can be sure 95% are akans.they just cannot control their fucking libidos

  • Akwasi Boateng 12 years ago

    IDIOTS like you draw very silly conclusions!!! I am very sad for SOWU a very intelligent and likeable individual. He is a friend. Sowu will not admit to such hideous crime. AND who said the picture was taken on the day of th ...
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  • Man in the Mirror 12 years ago

    Bro Kwasi, I totally agree with you. I live in Brixton and use the Victoria Line daily and this scenario plays up everyday in the tube.

  • Akwasi Boateng 12 years ago

    Thanks for your comments. I have just got home from Brixton!! You want to see the Victoria Line. AND the Northern Line (popularly known as the MISERY Line) was the Tube I used in my early days in the UK - from Clapham North!! ...
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  • Lolulou 12 years ago

    Its a shame. Guys have to be very careful that they behave appropriately.

  • Paa 12 years ago

    Senior Sowu, but you to why you disgrace Kwabotwe like so?? Sowu was not drunk, that is how he looks from his days at "Botwe" as he is a half-cast with stary eyes

  • peeeeeee 12 years ago

    Months

  • 4 Year Old 12 years ago

    Ghana has no sex offender records. I hope the legislature take this up and pass a sex offender registar. All those guys, semi ghanaians, etc. they comiit sex offences outside the country and they quickly move to Ghana to cont ...
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  • Sansan 12 years ago

    Sowu mom was rape, hence his action.

  • peeeeeee 12 years ago

    10months..also he tried it again.so if a drunkard murders its ok.who made you judge

  • Nana Aba 12 years ago

    I'm glad he's been caught! There are guys out there doing this on a regular basis who don't realise how distressing it is for girls/women! My daughter was groped by a guy on the underground on her way to work - she was so dis ...
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  • Concerned Ghanaian 12 years ago

    What a harsh sentence. I feel sorry for him. He should have got a decent lawyer.

  • Abe 12 years ago

    What has his alma mater got to do with his crime? Or is it a way of proving he is a Ghanaian?

  • Grafit 12 years ago

    This is too bad for ghanaians

  • Paa 12 years ago

    10 years for this nonsense is too bad. Did he have a lawyer?? This will not happens in America where child molestors don't even get half this sentence!!

  • Kaasta 12 years ago

    DV Lottery has allowed stupid pple like Paa to wash toilets in Ameria!! Pple who can't read simple posting and jump into making foolish comment

  • Akwasi Boateng 12 years ago

    You are an absolute TWIT!

  • Maame Grace 12 years ago

    That is where you are wrong in the States sex offenders are put on the registers list forever so if you are thinking of doing such act because you could get out in less than a year then you must be out of your mind. And for y ...
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  • Consider 12 years ago

    Why would you link this reportage to Mfatsepim Secondary School?

  • ohenenana 12 years ago

    This man is 53 years old, and you making reference to a secondary he attended, and a son of so and so. Ghanaweb, please train your writers.

  • JB Ansong 12 years ago

    If his mother is British, why call him a Ghanaian?

    A British-Ghanaian or Anglo-Ghanaian would have been the appropriate description of Mr Sowu.

    By the way, who wrote that article? Certainly his former college (Mfantsipi ...
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  • Lolulou 12 years ago

    He grew up in GHana!

  • Ibn Batuta 12 years ago

    These same sex boarding schools in Ghana tend to breed sexual deviants. A lot of girls out of Wesley Girls remain permanently unmarried or are down low lesbians. Mfantsipim, Augustines, Adisadel and Prempeh have a fair share ...
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  • Zaman 12 years ago

    Shame on you...you and the Editor at Ghanaweb never made it to a decent school like Mfantsipim. I guess it still hurts to not be one of those who made it there. Swallow you jealousy and shut up. I guess you forgot to mention ...
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  • mohammed 12 years ago

    this is share racism. He does nothing wrong. if they do not want people to touch each other make every body sit on their chair! You have no resources and racially profiling black men for stupid convictions. He could easily ge ...
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  • Mike Olongo, USA 12 years ago

    Dear sir, because of my lack of journalistic proficiency I do not normally critique reports of this nature. I was however stunned by two issues in your reporting. 1. Why did you choose to mention the High school the offender ...
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  • Rhodesia 12 years ago

    Ghanaweb is run by a bunch of illiterates. This is just an article to smear the name of Mfantsipim School. This is terrible journalism. Ghanaweb should be yanked off the net.

  • ONYAME BEYE 12 years ago

    DO THEY STILL HAVE THOSE SCHOOLS IN GHANA?

  • MenayeAFUAforiwa 12 years ago

    Ten years for sexual indecency,not rape? This is pure barbaric sentencing
    and it will happen nowhere than Bracist Britain.

  • Maame Grace 12 years ago

    He got ten months, read the story again He was rather put on the sex offenders list for ten years.

  • MenayeAFUAforiwa 12 years ago

    Even ten months,Maame Grace,is too much for such a minor offence.The former US ambassador to the UN, Mr.Andrew Young once said racism was invented by the British and it still remains in their blood.SHAME ON THEM.

  • Maame Grace 12 years ago

    You think so he pleaded guilty which means it was intertional, have you ever experienced such indecency on the tube before it is the most embarrasing thing to ever happen in a crowded trains, its happened to me in Ghana befor ...
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  • Mike Olongo, USA 12 years ago

    The offence is not as minor as MenayeAFUAforiwa would want us to believe. The guy's behavior amounts to sexual harassment which is frowned upon with some seriousness in an enlightened society. Recently the mayor of San Diego ...
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  • charles 12 years ago

    PLEASE, DONT TRY TO PLAY ANY RACE CARD ON THIS ONE. THE GUY HAS ADMITTED TO THE CRIME AND WAS APPROACHING ANOTHER VICTIM WHEN HE WAS APPREHENDED. THIS HAS BEEN SOMETHING HE DOES EVERYDAY. HE GOT WHAT HE DESERVES. PERIOD...... ...
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  • sayibu 12 years ago

    for the wages of sin is death

    by: sayibu (yendi)

  • Kofius 12 years ago

    Ewe is not a country. Sowu is Ghanaian. Whether Ashantis like it or not. Likewise other Ghanaians like Amoateng the drug baron who is not an Ewe

  • Vodoo Xebieso 12 years ago

    They can associate all things bad with Ewes and I don't give a damn. I cherish being an Ewe and of no other stock.

  • peeeeeee 12 years ago

    Fools fools.its 10 months and not years.and he tried to do it again.so where is racism.get real

  • Say the TRUTH 12 years ago

    I SUSPECT THE GUY MUST BE HAVING SOME MENTAL PROBLEM.

    THEY NEED TO CHECK HIM ON THAT.

  • Karma Chameleon 11 years ago

    Sowu allegedly has substance abuse problems, maybe he also needs some mental health help as you say.

    More than 70% of the UK jail population has 2 or more mental health disorders.

  • AK47 IS MY FUCKING ADDRESS 12 years ago

    WE CAN KEEP ACCEPTING THOSE CRIMINALS AS GHANAIAN .

  • Owu 12 years ago

    Our problem is tribalism, nothing else.

    I wonder how majority of us are caught up with the negative tribal sentiments which is undermining the development of our nation.

    21st century we still don't know what we want. ...
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  • Nana Aba 12 years ago

    Why is this story not on facebook? people should know about this pervert!!

  • peeeeeee 12 years ago

    Old news.been om fb
    sorry about daughter

  • Harryboo. 12 years ago

    What an idiot.

  • Karma Chameleon 11 years ago

    Sexual attacks cause a lot of distress for victims. Many victims go on to develop mental health problems, some even try to kill themselves. I knew one of Sowu's victims. She is with the angels now.

    Despite having atta ...
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