{
  "id": 6341939,
  "title": "Court sentences pub owner, shop attendant for selling expired food, sanitary offences",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/08/court-sentences-pub-owner-shop-attendant-for-selling-expired-food",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-09-08T22:05:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "MyJoyOnline Ghana",
    "slug": "myjoyonline-ghana",
    "url": "https://www.myjoyonline.com/court-sentences-pub-owner-shop-attendant-for-selling-expired-food-sanitary-offences/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "The Hohoe Magistrate Court has sentenced a 31-year-old pub owner and a 19-year-old shop attendant to criminal charges for selling expired food and operating a business with unsanitary conditions. Christabel Afornorfe, the pub owner, and Theodora Kornu, her employee, both pleaded guilty to the charges. Afornorfe faces a fine of GHS 600 or one month in prison if she fails to pay, while Kornu is ordered to sign a three-year good behavior bond. The prosecution detailed that during routine inspections at the business premises on July 14, sanitary inspectors found Afornorfe selling expired drinks, Kornu dumping refuse near the establishment, and both operating a Pub and Bar without a medical certificate of fitness. Despite being given an education and offered assistance to rectify the issues, the pair failed to comply. A follow-up inspection on July 22 revealed that neither the education nor the abatement notices had any impact on the offenders. The consequences of their actions pose a severe threat to public health, potentially leading to food poisoning and outbreaks of diseases like cholera, typhoid fever, dysentery, and Hepatitis A.",
  "summary": "The Hohoe Magistrate Court has convicted a 31-year-old pub owner and her 19-year-old shop attendant for selling expired drinks, accumulating refuse behind the business premises, and selling food under insanitary conditions.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}