Justice Ibrahim Adebayo Yusuf of Kwara State High Court, Ilorin, yesterday convicted and sentenced to death by hanging, three of the eight accused persons alleged to have sexually assaulted and murdered a 24-year-old student of University of Ilorin, Olajide Blessing Omowumi on June 2, 2021.
Three of the eight accused persons in the rape and murder of a 24-year-old University of Ilorin student, Olajide Blessing Omowumi on June 2, 2021, have
After one and half year legal tussle, an Ilorin High Court on Tuesday sentenced killers of Olajide Blessing Omowumi, a 300 level student of the University of Ilorin, to death by hanging.
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Tue Jul 13 2021
The trial in the case of Blessing Omowumi Olajide, a 300-level Agricultural Science student of the University of Ilorin, who was allegedly raped to death in her apartment continued on Monday as the Department of State Service (DSS) tendered 40 items as exhibit.
A wooden toy gun was among the items tendered by the DSS operative, Mr. Igwe Imo, allegedly used by the suspects to commit the crime.
The suspects; Abdulazeez Ismail, Ajala Moses Oluwatimileyin, Oyeyemi Timileyin Omogbolahan, Abdulkarim Shuaib, Kareem Oshioyemi Rasheed, Abdullateef Abdulrahman, Daud Bashir Adebayo and Akande Taiye Oladoja were brought to court for alleged rape, murder and armed robbery.