A 33-year-old student, Allen Abiodun, of the University of Abuja was yesterday sentenced to death by an Ikeja High Court, Lagos, for killing his younger brother, Allen Wale, with a broken bottle.
Justice Raliat Adebiyi found Abiodun guilty and convicted him of the offence of murder, contrary to Section 221 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State 2011 after six years of trial. Abiodun was arraigned on February 20, 2013 for killing his brother, Wale, at Imude Village, Oto-Awori, Lagos.
The convict confessed to killing his brother, Wale.
Following his confessional statement and the evidence of other prosecution witnesses, Justice Adebiyi sentenced Abiodun to death as charged.
She said the prosecution had proved its case of murder beyond reasonable doubt .
”The defendant is hereby found guilty and convicted of the murder of his brother, Allen Wale.
“You, Allen Abiodun, is hereby sentenced to death by hanging. May God, the giver of life, have mercy on you”, Justice Adebiyi said.
During trial, the state prosecutor, O. R Ahmed-Muil, called four witnesses to testify.
Ahmed-Muil also told the court that the convict attacked his younger brother with a broken bottle, stabbed him several times at the right side of his neck, dragged his body to a bush and covered it with leaves.
One of the witnesses, Sunday Abogunrin (PW2), the landlord of the convict, had testified that Abiodun was a troublesome fellow who fought his siblings at every slight provocation.
Abogunrin, a building contractor, told the court that he caught the convict dragging the body into a bush after he had killed the deceased.
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