A suspected thief, Vincent Okwekwu has been sentenced to death by hanging by the Delta High court for robbing his victim of a GSM handset and N10,000 cash, 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.
He was sentenced to death by hanging for the offence of conspiracy while he got 21 years jail term for each of the other two counts.
Prosecution from the Department of Public Prosecutions had told the Court that Vincent Okwekwu (M), on or about the 1st day of November 2009 with two others now at large broke into the apartments of one Ofoyeju Peter and Tietie Moses and robbed them of cash valuables amounting to N10, 000 and a telephone handset while armed with a gun and a cutlass.
The offence took place at Umueha quarters, Ibusa, but nemesis caught up with when his victims raised alarm that attracted members of the vigilante group in the area that led to his arrest as the hoodlum made to escape from the scene of crimewhile the two other members of the gang 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 read to him by the Court Clerk when he was arraigned before the Court for trial.
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