26-yr-old Sentenced To Death By Hanging For Robbery and Rape.

FOR robbing a couple at gunpoint and raping their teenage
daughter, a Delta High Court sitting in Warri, yesterday, sentenced a 26-
year-old furniture maker, Chijioke Ede, to death by hanging.
The condemned armed robber and rapist was arraigned on a three-count
charge of conspiracy to commit armed robbery, armed robbery and rape
before the court presided over by Justice Marshall Mukoro.
He was found guilty on all the charges and sentenced to death on count
one and two, while he got life imprisonment on the charge of rape.
Prosecution from Delta State Ministry of Justice had told the court that
Chijioke, from Enugu State, with another person still at large, on or about
October 12, 2009, at Okoro Street, Warri, off Marine Gate, within the
Warri Judicial Division, robbed his victims of a DVD player, a laptop
computer, cash, jewelries and other valuables at gunpoint and also raped
their teenage daughter.
The convict was arrested by the vigilante group in the area as his gang
made to escape with their loot.
Justice Mukoro held: “With the avalanche of facts and evidences before
this court, for the accused to say he was not involved in the crime is
laughable and an afterthought.
“For the court to hold the evidence of the accused will amount to denial
of justice, thereby bringing the bar and the bench to disrepute.
“I hereby uphold the evidence of prosecution as all the ingredients of the
offence have been proved beyond reasonable doubt and sentence the
accused to death by hanging on count one and two.”
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