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A State High Court in Benin City, Edo State, on Friday, Feb 12, sentenced a SARS officer, Joseph Omotosho, to death for conspiring with four other constables, who are currently at large, to kill a car dealer in 2015.
The slain car dealer, Benson Obodeh, 26, was suspected by the police to belong to a criminal gang which allegedly stole a Peugeot car in Lagos.
He was said to have been arrested at his home in Benin City on May 21, 2015, and tortured to death the same day by four police officers. including the SARS officer, Omotosho.
His corpse was dumped at the Specialist Hospital in Benin City, with a different name by one of the officers that killed him.