A High Court sitting in Lafia, the Nasarawa State capital on Thursday sentenced a gospel singer, Oluwatimileyin Ajayi, to death by hanging for killing his girlfriend, Salome Adaidu.
The 24-year-old who was a serving corps member, was said to have been murdered by the 31-year-old convict, when she visited him at his residence in Papaladna village of Karshi Development Area, under the Karu Local Government Area in Nasarawa State.
Delivering his judgement, the presiding judge, Justice Simon Aboki said the prosecuting counsel proved their case beyond every reasonable doubt that the convict killed the victim at his residence.
The judgment posited that the defendant’s claim that he became unconscious after having a good time with his girlfriend, and was unconscious when he wrote his confessional statement did not hold water.
He, therefore, found Ajayi guilty of the offence, after several months of trial.
Justice Aboki noted that Ajayi was convicted under Section 221 of the Penal Code of Northern Nigeria, which prescribes a death penalty for persons guilty of such an offence.
“The law is clear on this, and the punishment is death. Therefore, the accused is hereby sentenced to death by hanging,” Justice Aboki ruled.
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