UNIABUJA student sentenced to death for killing brother

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By Henry Ojelu

A 33-year-old student of the University of Abuja, UNIABUJA, Allen Abiodun was Monday sentenced to death by a Lagos High Court sitting in Ikeja for killing his younger brother, Wale with a broken bottle.

Death penalty UNIABUJA student sentenced to death for killing brother

 

The court presided over by Justice Raliatu Adebiyi held that the prosecution proved the ingredients of murder against the defendant beyond reasonable doubt as required by law.

Justice Adebiyi while pronouncing the sentence recounted that the convict who was 27 years old at the time of committing the murder, had in his confessional statement stated that he was awakened from sleep and saw his younger brother, Wale Allen, standing before him with a bottle.

The defendant in the statement said he quickly grabbed another bottle and stabbed his brother who died instantly. To cover up the act, he dragged the corpse to a nearby bush and covered it with leaves so that nobody would find it.

The judge also pointed out that the convict in his confessional statement which…



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