telephone and N10, 000 cash while armed with
a gun, a 24-year-old man was on Monday
sentenced to death by hanging by a Delta
High Court at Akwukwu-Igbo, Oshimili North
Local Council.
The convict, Vincent Okwekwu, was convicted
of the offence of conspiracy to commit armed
robbery, the substantive offence of armed
robbery, which was reduced to a lesser
offence of robbery.
The young accused who looked dejected after
the judgment was, however, sentenced to
death by hanging for the offence of
conspiracy while he got 21 years jail term for
each of the other two counts.
During the trial, prosecution from the
Department of Public Prosecutions had
explained that the unemployed robber had on
or about November 1, 2009 with two others
now at large broke into the flats of one
Ofoyeju Peter and Tietie Moses at Umueha
quarters, Ibusa, also in Oshimili North Local
Council and robbed them of cash amounting
to N10, 000 and a telephone handset while
armed with a gun and a cutlass.
Nemesis caught up with them when his
victims raised the alarm that attracted
members of the vigilance group in the area
that led to the arrest convict, as he and the
other gang members tried to flee from the
scene of the crime.
While Vincent was arrested, two other
members of the gang, now at large, escaped
into a nearby bush. Prosecution further told
the Court that the accused, who was later
handed over to the Police, admitted to have
committed the crime in his voluntary
statement but denied the charge as he
pleaded not guilty to all the three count
charge.
Source: TheGuardian
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