An Abeokuta High Court on Wednesday condemned a 33-year-elderly person, Ibrahim Toyin, to death by hanging for looting a lady of her purse at gunpoint.
Equity Ayokunle Rotimi-Balogun conveying her
judgment held that all the proof offered had persuaded the court past a
sensible uncertainty that Ibrahim submitted the offenses as charged.
She, consequently, condemned Ibrahim to death by
hanging.
Prior during the preliminary, the police had
accused Ibrahim of two tallies verging on scheme and outfitted burglary.
Ibrahim, nonetheless, argued not blameworthy to the
offenses when he was at first charged.
At the preliminary, the Prosecution Counsel, Mrs
Margret Sodeke, had told the court that Ibrahim submitted the offenses on Aug.
26, 2012, at about 10:00 p.m., at Powerline intersection, Sabo zone of Sagamu.
She said that Ibrahim others still everywhere
schemed and looted one Titilayo Eniola of her purse containing some important
things.
Sodeke clarified that when the complainant was
coming from her shop at around 10 p.m., on the said date, Ibrahim with others
now everywhere halted her and pointed a privately made gun at her.
She clarified that Ibrahim carried off the
complainant's tote containing: N15, 000
money, ATM cards, a Holy Bible and different assets.
She said that Ibrahim was captured by certain
individuals from the Oodua People's Congress (OPC) at the location of the
wrongdoing.
She added that he was found with a privately made
firearm and two cartridges.
Sodeke, in any case, said that the offenses contradicted Sections 6(b) and 1(2)( a) of the Robbery and Firearms (Special Provisions) Act, Cap. Rll, Laws of the Federation of Nigeria, 2004.
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