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Court sentences labourer to death by hanging in Ogun Court sentences labourer to death by hanging in Ogun
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A 39-year old labourer, Mohammed Ibrahim, has been sentenced to death by hanging by a High Court sitting in Abeokuta.
The convict was tried and convicted on a two-count charge of murder and attempted murder.
He was accused of killing a two-year-old baby and also found guilty of an attempt to kill one Rabi Yakubu.
Ibrahim was sentenced to death and life imprisonment for the two-count charge.
Delivering his judgement, Justice Ayokunle Rotimi-Balogun, held that the prosecution proved the charge of murder beyond all reasonable doubts.
Labourer to die by hanging for killing two-year-old boy
Daud Olatunji, Abeokuta
A High Court sitting in Abeokuta, Ogun State, on Tuesday, sentenced a 39-year-old labourer, Mohammed Ibrahim, to death by hanging for the murder of a two-year-old child.
The convict was also found guilty for attempting to kill one Rabi Yakubu and was accordingly sentenced to life imprisonment.
Ibrahim was tried and convicted on two counts of murder and attempted murder.
Justice Ayokunle Rotimi-Balogun held that the prosecution had proved the charge of murder beyond all reasonable doubts.
She held that the convict was guilty of both charges, which she said contravened sections 320, 316(1) and 319(1) of the Criminal Code, Laws of Ogun State, 2006.
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