The Ikeja Excessive Courtroom on Monday, March 27, sentenced a home workers, Joseph Ogbu, to loss of life by hanging for killing his 89-year-old employer, Ajoke John and her daughter, Oreoluwa John, 38, in Lagos.
The convict, who hails from Oju Native Govt Space of Benue State, brutally murdered the victims at their residence at Quantity 4 Ogunlana Drive in Surulere, on June 19, 2019, 24 hours after he was employed.
Justice Modupe Nicole-Clay held that the prosecution had sufficiently confirmed the three-count cost bordering on armed theft and homicide in opposition to the convict.
Nicole-Clay held that the defendant confessed to the crime as he admitted to dwelling with the deceased and was the one witness of the incident.
“He killed Adejoke by strangling her and Oreoluwa by stabbing her to loss of life. Because the defence didn’t elevate an objection to the admissibility of the confessional assertion, there isn’t a doubt that the defendant confessed to the crimes.
“I’ve thought-about the proof of the safety guard, an Okada man, one Yahya Ibrahim, the home assist and a police Inspector.
The defendant couldn’t clarify what he was doing with all of the stolen gadgets he was discovered with at about 2:00 a.m. on the date he was arrested.
“The courtroom is happy with the full proof to determine the guilt of the defendant.
“This courtroom has discovered Joseph Ogbu responsible of those heinous crimes, and you’re hereby sentenced to loss of life by hanging. Might God have mercy in your soul,”
The convict, whereas gesticulating, pleaded for mercy and prayed the courtroom for mercy.
“The mama no die for my presence. I encourage for mercy,” the convict mentioned in pidgin English.
The defence counsel, Moses Enema, in his allocutus, prayed the courtroom to have mercy on the convict.
Nevertheless, the state counsel, Olarewaju Daud, urged the courtroom to convict the defendant as charged.
Daud advised the courtroom that the convict dedicated the offences at 9:30 p.m. on Ogunlana Drive, Surulere, Lagos.
The prosecution submitted that the defendant killed Ms Oreoluwa by stabbing her. He mentioned the defendant additionally robbed the deceased of her automobile, telephones and Plasma TV whereas armed with a knife.
He additionally mentioned the convict, armed with a knife, robbed the octogenarian of her Toyota Camry Saloon automobile with Registration No. FST 104 CW, LG plasma TV, motorway handset, Gionee handset, Nokia telephone, i-Tel Cellphone and energy financial institution.
The offence, the prosecutor mentioned, contravened sections 222 and 297 of the Prison Legal guidelines of Lagos State (2015).
