FOR allegedly
robbing his victims of a mobile 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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