An Ekiti State High Court has sentenced a speaker, Shittu Isiaka, to death by hanging after convicting him of armed robbery and conspiracy to devote heist.
Justice Oladimeji Adejumo delivered the decision after ruling that the prosecution successfully established the offences of conspiracy and heist versus the defendant beyond sensible doubt.
During the trial, the victim, recognized as Olowoyeye, recounted how he directly left death after the attack. He informed the court that he rolled through the bush until he reached a close-by highway, where authorities patrol officers eventually saved him and took him to a healthcare facility for treatment.
According to the victim, the injuries sustained during the event triggered him to pass bloody urine for numerous days, including that he invested about 15 days receiving healthcare.
A cops witness, Inspector Kehinde Omotosho, likewise affirmed that highway patrol officers later on brought the victim to the police station in Igbara-Oke, where he made an official statement linking Isiaka in the burglary.
However, the offender denied the accusations, firmly insisting that he had no involvement in the criminal offense. Isiaka also turned down claims that he injected the victim with any substance.
The lecturer argued before the court that he was not a doctor and therefore had no licence to administer injections. He further contended that investigators failed to produce any syringe or things supposedly utilized in the act, stressing that no medical report existed to support the victim’s claim.
In her judgment, Justice Adejumo ruled that the prosecution failed to prove the claims of threatening life in line with Section 135( 1) of the Proof Act.
The judge observed that there were no eyewitnesses to the supposed injection and that no medical report hurt to corroborate the victim’s claim. She added that it would be hazardous for the court to rely entirely on the statement of the victim and another witness without supporting medical proof.
Subsequently, the court acquitted Isiaka of the charge verging on endangering life.
Despite the acquittal on that count, the judge held that enough evidence connected the accused to the armed robbery.
Justice Adejumo therefore founded guilty Isiaka of conspiracy to dedicate heist and heist, sentencing him to life jail time for conspiracy and death by hanging for armed robbery.
“The sentence of the court upon you is that you be hanged by the neck till you are dead,” the judge pronounced.