A Man Sentenced to Death for Stealing Handset, N10,000

Monday this week a man was sentenced to death for allegedly robbing a victim of a mobile phone and N10, 000 cash while armed with a gun by a Delta High Court at Akwukwu-Igbo, Oshimili North Local Council..

According to Guardian, a 24-year-old Vincent Okwekwu along with two other accomplices who are at large, broke into an individual’s flat in November 2009, and robbed them of N10,000 and a mobile phone while armed with a gun and cutlass.
The owners of the flat raised an alarm during the incident and Okwekwu was arrested, but his accomplices escaped.
Okwekwu was convicted for “conspiracy to commit armed robbery, the substantive offence of armed robbery, which was reduced to a lesser offence of robbery.”
The accused that looked dejected and rejected after the judgment was, however, sentenced to death by hanging for the offence of conspiracy while he got 21 years jail term for each of the other two counts.
While Vincent was arrested, two other members of the gang, now at large, escaped into a nearby bush. 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 but denied the charge as he pleaded not guilty to all the three count charge.

3/25/2015