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Makurdi High Court on Friday sentenced a 38-year-old soldier, Moses
Olorunfemi to death for the murder of one Mercy Agagbonna in 2009.
In her judgement, the presiding judge, Mrs. Theresa Igoche, sentenced the accused to death by hanging.
According
to the court, Olorunfemi, who was attached to the 81 Intelligence Corps
of the Nigeria Army, Lagos is guilty of murdering Agagbonna, who was
his girl friend and a nurse with the Federal Medical Centre (FMC),
Makurdi.
The court ruled that the evidence tendered by the prosecution had clearly proved that Olorunfemi was guilty of the offence.
The
judge said the evidence showed that he was the last person seen with
her before she was found dead in her room located at Kwararafa Quarters
on September 19, 2009.
She
said the post mortem examination conducted on the deceased by Dr.
Dzuachii Orgen of the FMC, Makurdi revealed that her neck was forcefully
fractured.
The
judge further said that the testimony of one Matthew Igyever, a
co-tenant of the deceased proved that the convict slept in the
deceased’s room and no one saw her again for three days after he had
left.
Igyever had testified that it was on the third day that the police broke open the door to her room where she was found dead.
The
News Agency of Nigeria reports that the convict had testified for
himself without calling any witness, claiming that he was in Lagos on
the day of the incident.
The
judge ruled that the court was convinced beyond any reasonable doubt
that Olorunfemi committed the murder and sentenced him to death by
hanging.
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