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  • Man to die by hanging for murder

    Lagos Igbosere High Court yesterday sentenced a man, Ibrahim Tijani, to death by hanging, for killing his neighbour with a machete, during a quarrel over generator fumes.

    Justice Adedayo Akintoye held that the evidence provided by the prosecution, was compelling and credible for convicting Tijani.

    Justice Akintoye held: “The court is satisfied that the defendant is guilty as charged.

    “The defendant is to be hanged by the neck until death and may God have mercy on your soul.”

    Tijani was arraigned on January 21, 2016.

    Lagos State Attorney-General and Commissioner for Justice Mr Adeniji Kazeem (SAN) said the defendant, who with  lived with the deceased in an uncompleted building at Okun in Ajah, committed the offence at about 2:20am on February 8, 2015.

    He said Tijani, 34, slashed Bashorun Okanlawon, 57, in the left hand, leg and waist with a machete in the presence of Okanlawon’s son, Adeola.

    During the trial, Adeola told Justice Akintoye that the incident followed a fight between his father and the defendant over the fumes from Tijani’s generator.

    He said Tijani attacked his father with a machete he picked from a food vendor.

    During cross-examination by the defendant’s counsel, Onome Akpeneye, Adeola said the incident was preceded by a fight.

    He said he and his father were bothered by the fumescoming into their room from Tijani’s generator.

    The deceased complained to the convict about the smoke and asked him to reposition the generator, but he refused. The deceased then turned the generator funnel away from his room.

  • Man to die by hanging for killing Okada rider

    An Osun State High Court in Osogbo has sentenced a middle-aged man, Sunday Palma, to death by hanging for killing Isiaka Rafiu, a commercial motorcyclist (Okada rider).

    He was arraigned on December 8, 2014, on one-count charge of murder, contrary to Section 316 and punishable under Section 319 of the Criminal Code Cap. 3 Laws of Osun State 2002.

    The prosecution team from the Ministry of Justice led by the Solicitor-General, Mr. Dapo Adeniji, called three witnesses and tendered statements, which were later admitted in evidence as exhibits.

    He told the court that on August 20, 2006, the victim left home for work and the incident happened.

    Adeniji said the Okada rider was gruesomely murdered by Palma.

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    He said his body was found a few days later at a footpath and it was obvious that he fought someone before he was overpowered and killed.

    In his confessional statement, Palma admitted committing the offence.

    He said: “I saw the boy riding an Okada. I stopped him and told him to carry me to the farm along Gbogban Road in Ikire. On getting to the farm, I asked him to stop, and I removed a knife in my poly bag and killed him. I cut his neck after realising he was dead. I left him and went away with his motorcycle.”

    Delivering judgement, Justice Adepele Ojo sentenced Palma to death by hanging.

  • Man to die by hanging for killing father

    Plateau State High Court has sentenced a 20-year-old man, Ponjul Yakubu, to death by hanging, for killing his father.

    News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports Justice A.I. Ashoms gave the sentence after he found Yakubu guilty of a one-count charge of culpable homicide, punishable with death under Section 221 of the Penal Code.

    “Going by the findings of this court, you, Ponjul Yakubu, mercilessly took the life of your father, Mr. Domsing Yakubu, in cold blood.

    “You, however, showed remorse and appeared sober throughout your trial. However, this sentence is mandatory, as the law states that any person convicted of murder shall be punished with death by hanging.

    “The sentence of this court upon you is that you, Ponjul Yakubu, will be hanged until you are dead. May God have mercy on your soul,” he declared.

    NAN reports that Yakubu was arraigned on July 8, 2015, to face a one-count charge of culpable homicide punishable with death, after allegedly committing the crime on May 5, 2015.

    Yakubu was accused of using his father’s Dane gun to kill him (father), while the man was taking a nap under a tree in their home at Dorowa, in Vwang Gwong village, Shendam Local Government of Plateau State.

    Yakubu pleaded not guilty.

    The prosecution counsel, Mr. Gideon Azi of  Plateau State Ministry of Justice, told the court that Yakubu had confessed to killing his father, for refusing to buy a motorcycle for him.

    “He (Yakubu) confessed that he returned home on the day and found his father sleeping on a mat under a tree, went into his (father)’s room, took his loaded gun and shot him at close range,” Azi told the court.

    He submitted Yakubu’s confessional statement to the court as evidence, and quoted the accused as saying that he committed the crime alone.

    Yakubu owned up to the statement that bore his thumb print.

    Azi quoted the accused as saying that his father, after harvesting about a thousand tubers of yam and bags of maize and millet, promised to buy a motorcycle for him after selling them.

    The accused was further quoted as saying that his father sold the produce without consulting him, and also refused to buy the motorcycle as promised, an action that provoked him into killing him.

     

  • Man to die by hanging for murder

    Man to die by hanging for murder

    The Kogi State High Court in Koton-Karfi has sentenced a man, Mallam Ibrahim Muhammed, to death by hanging for the murder of two brothers – Mohammed Kudu Abubakar and Umar Tanko Abubakar.
    The accused is being tried for robbery and culpable homicide.
    According to the Police First Information Report (FIR), the accused, sometime last January, at Kungbani Village, robbed the brothers of their Toyota Carina (BDA 902 AA), thereby committing an offence punishable under Section 298(A) of the Penal Code.
    The accused was said to have poisoned Kudu and Umar before hitting them in the head with a pestle, when the poison failed to react on time.
    Muhammed, however, pleaded not guilty.
    Justice Alaba Omolaye-Ajileye, said: “I hold that after poisoning the brothers, as the accused confessed, he hit their heads with a pestle (exhibit P7) to hasten their annihilation. And, to avoid any trace of his inhuman act, the accused buried the bodies in his compound.
    “By your own word, after poisoning Tanko and Mohammed, and they refused to die, you hit them in their heads with a pestle. That was a brutal homicide committed with determination and ruthlessness.
    “The manner you committed it, by your own description, makes it a high level of exceptional wickedness, that it can only be properly marked by death sentence, which is the only sentence I can pass on you.”
    He, therefore, sentenced the accused to death by hanging.

  • Man to die for killing friend

    A 26-year-old man, Anuoluwapo Samuel, was yesterday sentenced to death by an Ikeja High Court for killing his friend during a brawl after a drinking binge.
    Justice Raliatu Adebiyi found him guilty of murder.
    “The defendant, Anuoluwapo Samuel is hereby sentenced to death in accordance with Section 221 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State, 2011.
    “May the Lord have mercy on your soul,” Adebiyi said.
    The judge held that the prosecution had established the ingredients necessary to secure a murder conviction.
    “The defendant from the facts of the case did not set out to kill the deceased but he must have known that the machete wound he inflicted caused a grievous bodily harm.
    “The defendant left the scene of the fight to fetch a machete. That action was a proof of his intent to inflict the maximum injury on the deceased.”
    Adebiyi faulted the claim of self-defence claimed by Samuel during his trial.
    “When the defendant faced what he said was a fear for his life, he crossed the road, went to his home to pick a machete.
    “The spontaneous reaction to an immediate threat is to pick up the nearest weapon to defend himself or to flee.
    “The defendant by his action failed to prove the ground of self-defence,” Adebiyi said.
    In her allocutus, Counsel to Samuel, Miss Y.A. Ajayi, pleaded with the court to temper justice with mercy.
    “The defendant is a young man, who has many years ahead of him; we plead that my Lord should temper justice with mercy.
    “He did not try to withhold facts from the court, he was remorseful and was weeping uncontrollably during his testimony,” she said.
    Immediately after the sentence was read, Samuel who was in the dock broke down in tears while a female family member was crying and wailing so loudly that the court had to go on a short recess.
    According to the Prosecution, led by Mr Akin George, the convict committed the offence on May 2, 2012 at Oke-Afa Secondary School at Badagry, near Lagos.
    “The convict and the deceased, John Omobere, were involved in a drunken fight after drinking locally-made gin.
    “The fight was allegedly instigated by a third friend who goes by the name ‘Lampard’, the convict was allegedly stabbed by the deceased with a broken bottle.
    “After the convict was stabbed, he ran to his house to get a machete and inflicted deep cuts in his right arm.
    “The deceased did not die at the scene but at his home, the autopsy established that he died of haemorrhagic shock and severe lacerations on his right hand,” George said.
    The prosecutor said that the deceased was discovered the next day lying dead in a pool of blood in his home by members of his family.

  • Man to die by hanging for armed robbery

    Man to die by hanging for armed robbery

    A Lagos High Court, sitting in Igbosere has sentenced a man to death by hanging for armed robbery. The trial judge, Justice Olabisi Akinlade, had found the convict, Rasak Ogedengbe, guilty of a two count offence of robbery and conspiracy, contrary to and punishable under Section 403  and 402 of the criminal code law of Lagos State 2003.

    Ogedengbe, aged 25, on the faithful day, had, along with another person at large, attacked the family of one Mr. Chukwujekwu, who just returned from church at Ejigbo area of the state, with guns.

    The convict during the operation allegedly catered away some of their valuables, which included money, wrist watches, phones, among others.

    The victim had reported the robbery at Ejigbo police station.

    But as the victim stepped out of the police station, he saw his attacker in the police van already arrested by the police. The police searched the polythene bag with the convict and found some of the valuables catered away from the victim’s house. The convict, during trial, did not produce any witness nor pleaded not guilty to the offence.

    The Prosecution on the other hand called two witnesses to testify and all their evidence were taken by the court. Delivering her judgment, the trial judge, Justice Akinlade, held that the defendant was guilty of criminal conspiracy and armed robbery.

    She further held that the prosecution has proved the elements of armed robbery and conspiracy beyond reasonable doubt. Justice Akinlade therefore found the convict guilty as charged and accordingly sentenced him to death by hanging.

  • Man to die for killing neighbour

    An Abudu High Court near Benin, Edo State, yesterday sentenced Sunday Ilawe to death by hanging.

    Ilawe was convicted and found guilty for allegedly stabbing his neighbour, Blessing Ehigie on his neck and stomach, leading to his death.

    According to Justice Uro Erameh, the incident happened on October 13, 2004 at Egua-Evbu Ehigie village in Orhionmwon Local Government Area of Edo State.

    Justice Erameh held that the prosecution counsel from the state Ministry of Justice, Mrs. Stella Okojie, called in five witnesses who proved the case against the convict as required by law.

    The court also held that the convict was arrested at the scene of crime with the knife he used to commit the offence, adding that he also made confessional statement to the police.

    While noting that the confessional statement alone was enough to send the convict to jail, Justice Erameh further held that the defence failed to prove its submission that the convict had mental problem.