A 26-year-old man, Anuoluwapo Samuel, was on Monday sentenced to death by an Ikeja High Court for killing his friend during a brawl after a drinking binge.
Samuel was found guilty of a count of murder by Justice Raliatu Adebiyi.
“The defendant, Anuoluwapo Samuel is hereby sentenced to death in accordance with Section 221 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State, 2011.
“May the Lord have mercy on your soul,” Adebiyi said.
The judge in her judgment ruled that prosecution had established the ingredients necessary to secure a murder conviction.
“The defendant from the facts of the case did not set out to kill the deceased but he must have known that the machete wound he inflicted caused a grievous bodily harm.
“The defendant left the scene of the fight to fetch a machete. That action was a proof of his intent to inflict the maximum injury on the deceased.”
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