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Justice Olusegun Ogunyemi of an Ekiti State Excessive Court docket, Ado Ekiti Division has sentenced one Ismaila Ojo to dying by hanging for strangulating his good friend, Kareem Adu, over a bike.
The police prosecutor, Inspector Tunde Arowosola, had informed the court docket Ojo dedicated the crime on Might 13, 2018. He stated the spouse of the deceased, Agnes Adu, had come to the station to report that her husband had been killed at Odo-Uro by one Ismaila Ojo, over an possession disputation and tussle, in respect of a bike. Arowosola stated the lady alleged that the defendant (Ojo) strangulated the deceased.
Additionally testifying, a policeman, Inspector Lasisi Bashiru, informed the court docket that the accused was arrested and when interrogated, he confessed to the crime that on Might 13, 2018, when he was taking his bathtub, Adu (the deceased) got here to take a bike which he parked in entrance of his home. Bashiru informed the court docket that the accused stated that after ending his bathtub, he went to Adu’s home and met him sleeping. He stated Ojo claimed he didn’t have any intention of killing the deceased as they merely fought whereas none of them carried or used any weapon or exhausting object throughout the combat.
The decide held that having fastidiously thought-about and weighed the proof earlier than the court docket proves that the defendant induced the dying of the deceased by holding and urgent his neck and throat.
“On the entire, I discover the defendant responsible as charged. You (the defendant) are hereby sentenced to be hanged on the neck till you die.”
