An
Abuja High Court has okayed a soldier, Lance Corporal Oge Etudo to die by hanging
after he was found guilty of rape and culpable homicide.
The 30 years old
convicted soldier was said to have on March 27, 2014, at Dei-Dei suburb of the
FCT, abducted, stabbed and raped a married woman identified as Binta Usman
Kadede to death inside the bush.
The randy soldier was previously attached to a battalion of the Nigerian Army at Lungi Barracks in Abuja. The convict was found to have acted in breach of sections 220 and 221 of the Penal Code law.
The randy soldier was previously attached to a battalion of the Nigerian Army at Lungi Barracks in Abuja. The convict was found to have acted in breach of sections 220 and 221 of the Penal Code law.
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Justice A.S. Adepoju who declined plea of allocutus by the defence lawyer,
stressed that pictorial evidence adduced before the court showed that the
defendant gruesomely murdered his victim.
“I will not also show mercy to him”, the Judge who was almost
moved to tears declared. Consequently, the court convicted the defendant on a
two-count criminal charge that was entered against him by FCT commissioner of
police.
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