A Delta State High Court sitting at Akwukwu-Igbo, headquarters of Oshimili North Local Government Area of the state has sentenced one Vincent Okwekwu to death by hanging for stealing a mobile phone and N10,000 cash from his victims, while armed with a gun.
The court gave the verdict having convicted the accused of the offence of conspiracy to commit armed robbery, the substantive offence of armed robbery, which was reduced to a lesser offence of robbery.
Presiding judge, Justice H. O. Akpotohwo, sentenced the accused to death by hanging for the offence of conspiracy and 21 years jail term for each of the other two counts.
Prosecution from the Department of Public Prosecutions, DPP, had told the court that Vincent Okwekwu, on or about November 1, 2009 with two others, now at large, broke into the apartments of one Ofoyeju Peter and Tietie Moses and robbed them of cash amounting to N10,000 and a mobile phone, while armed with a gun and a cutlass.
The offence took place at Umueha quarters, Ibusa.
Nemesis caught up with them when his victims raised alarm that attracted members of the vigilante group in the area that led to his arrest as the hoodlums made to escape from the scene of crime.
While Okwekwu was caught, two other members of the gang escaped into a nearby bush.
The 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.
He denied the charge as he pleaded not guilty to all the three count charges read to him by the court clerk, when he was arraigned before the court.
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