By Correspondent in Lokoja.
A middle-aged man, Danladi Ichado is to die by hanging for stabbing two women: Rabiyetu Yusufu and Jemila Yakubu to death.
Justice Nicodemus Awulu of Kogi High Court 5, Lokoja, passed the sentence in his judgement on the case of Culpable Homicide brought against the convict.
Awulu said that the prosecution had proved its case beyond reasonable doubt,to show that Awalu intended to kill the women, based on the weapon he used.
The jurist also said that the evidence of Rekiya Rilwan (PW1), who was an eyewitness at the scene of crime, had fixed the defendant and demolished his alibi.
Awulu, therefore, convicted the defendant and sentenced him to death by hanging.
Earlier in the case, the prosecution, led by Inedu Opaluwa, Senior Legal Officer with the state Ministry of Justice, had told the court that Danladi Ichado of Odogomu, Ankpa Local Government Area of the state committed the offence on June 6, 2020.
Charged with Culpable Homicide Contrary to Section 221(a) of the Penal Code, Ichado was said to have on 6th of June 2020 at Oko-Ojuwo, Ogaji in Ankpa, caused the death of two the women by stabbing them with a short cutlass on the head and in the chest.
Opaluwa called six witnesses and tendered four exhibits while the defendant called one witness and gave evidence in his defence.
He alleged that the convict attacked the women with lethal weapon and therefore urged the court to hold that he intended to kill the women based on the weapon he used.
The prosecutor held that with the weapon, Ichado inflicted injuries on the heads of the two women and their chests, penetrating deep and destroying their vital organs, leading to their death.
According to him, the three women – Rabiyetu Yusufu, Jemila Yakubu and Rekiya Rilwan were going to farm on the fateful day when the defendant suddenly appeared from the bush, wearing a face mask, and pounced on them.
He said that the defendant initially escaped but was later caught and arraigned.
Ichado, in his defence, tried to establish an alibi that he was at home harvesting palm fruits on the day of the incident and therefore could not have possibly been the one that attacked the women.
