A Delta High Court sitting in Warri, yesterday, sentenced a 26-year-old furniture maker, Chijioke Ede, to death by hanging for robbing a couple at gunpoint and raping their teenage daughter, .
The condemned armed robber and rapist was arraigned on a three-count charge of conspiracy to commit armed robbery, armed robbery and rape before the court presided over by Justice Marshall Mukoro.
He was found guilty on all the charges and sentenced to death on count one and two, while he got life imprisonment on the charge of rape.
Prosecution from Delta State Ministry of Justice had told the court that Chijioke, from Enugu State, with another person still at large, on or about October 12, 2009, at Okoro Street, Warri, off Marine Gate, within the Warri Judicial Division, robbed his victims of a DVD player, a laptop computer, cash, jewelries and other valuables at gunpoint and also raped their teenage daughter.
The convict was arrested by the vigilante group in the area as his gang made to escape with their loot.
Justice Mukoro held: “With the avalanche of facts and evidences before this court, for the accused to say he was not involved in the crime is laughable and an afterthought.
“For the court to hold the evidence of the accused will amount to denial of justice, thereby bringing the bar and the bench to disrepute.
“I hereby uphold the evidence of prosecution as all the ingredients of the offence have been proved beyond reasonable doubt and sentence the accused to death by hanging on count one and two.” Human actions need to be regulated otherwise life will be 'brutish,short and nasty'.
This is an unfortunate incident but the law must take it's course.
Do you think that Chijioke's sentence is too harsh? Does he deserve to be pardoned and made to serve a less severe punishment?
Rapists shouldn't be condemned to death. this guys shuold have his p***s, two thumbs, two fore-fingers and two toes from each foot cut off. He should also have a tatoo on his fore head that says "I rob & rape"
ReplyDeleteI honestly do not know why he should rape the girl when he could get it easily from s*x hawkers on the street.
They should inject HIV, AIDS and Cancer into him so that he dies slowly and painfully over a very long time. That family would continue to live the horrors of that day for quite sometime, so why should he die in a few minutes.
Rape is a horrble thng,the trauma u go tru and live wiith is emotionally excrutiating.
ReplyDeleteHe is a wicked man,robbed and raped!rape is bad enuff on its own
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