An Igbosere High Court in Lagos on Tuesday sentenced a Togolese cook, Sunday Anani, to life imprisonment for the murder of his employer, the Chief Executive Officer of Credit Switch Ltd., Opeyemi Bademosi.
Justice Mobolanle Okikiolu-Ighile convicted Anani following his plea of guilty to a one-count charge of voluntary manslaughter.
Anani, 22, was initially charged by the Lagos State Government on two counts of murder and armed robbery.
He pleaded not guilty but when trial began, Anani entered a plea bargain agreement for a lesser charge.
He then pleaded guilty to voluntarily manslaughter with the help of his counsel, Mrs Aderenra Adeyemi, the Director of the Office of Defender
He, therefore, confessed that he stabbed Chief Bademosi to death in his Ikoyi, Lagos, home, while trying to rob him.
He also confirmed that he was the person caught on closed circuit television camera fleeing the scene of the crime.
The defendant’s initial plea of…
