A 26-year-old furniture maker,
Chijioke Ede was yesterday sentenced to death by hanging by Delta High Court
sitting in Warri for robbing a couple at gunpoint and raping their teenage
daughter. The condemned armed robber and rapist was arraigned on a three-count
charge of conspiracy to commit armed robbery, armed robbery and rape before the
court presided over by Justice Marshall Mukoro.
He was found guilty on all the
charges and sentenced to death on count one and two, while he got life imprisonment
on the charge of rape. Prosecution from Delta State Ministry of Justice had
told the court that Chijioke, from Enugu State, with another person still at
large, on or about October 12, 2009, at Okoro Street, Warri, off Marine Gate,
within the Warri Judicial Division, robbed his victims of a DVD player, a
laptop computer, cash, jewelries and other valuables at gunpoint and also raped
their teenage daughter.
The convict was arrested by the
vigilante group in the area as his gang made to escape with their loot.
Justice Mukoro held: “With the
avalanche of facts and evidences before this court, for the accused to say he
was not involved in the crime is laughable and an afterthought. “For the court
to hold the evidence of the accused will amount to denial of justice, thereby
bringing the bar and the bench to disrepute. “I hereby uphold the evidence of
prosecution as all the ingredients of the offence have been proved beyond
reasonable doubt and sentence the accused to death by hanging on count one and
two.”
Source: Vanguard
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