A Nigerian soldier, Corporal Moses Olurunfemi has been sentenced to
death by hanging by a Makurdi High Court after being found guilty of
culpable homicide.
The convict before his conviction was attached to 81 Intelligence Corp of the Nigerian Army in Lagos.
According to the First Information Report, FIR, filed in Court by the
Police prosecutor, the convict had on the 19th of September 2009
allegedly strangulated his girl friend Miss Mercy Ajagbonna at her
residence for undisclosed reasons.
The late Miss Ajagbonna was until her death a staff of the Federal
Medical Center, Makurdi and resided at Kwararafa quarters in Makurdi
town.
In the course of the trial however, the convict told the court in
evidence that he did not murder Mercy, claiming that he was away in
Lagos when the incident happened.
The matter which dragged on for over three years was however rested
yesterday when Justice Theresa Igoche ruled that the convict was guilty
of the crime.
Justice Igoche noted that the evidence before her showed that Moses
actually committed the act as he was the last person seen with the
deceased at the time of her death.
She further stated that the Police prosecutor proved his case beyond
reasonable doubt insisting that the soldier killed the nurse with whom
he kept an intimate relationship.
The judge added that the testimony of Doctor Zuwashi Ugem of the
Federal Medical Center, Makurdi who performed a post-mortem on the
remains of Mercy showed clearly that her neck was fractured which
obviously led to her death.
Vanguard Nigeria
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