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Motorcyclist, Two Others Sentenced To Death For Killing Corps Member

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An Osun High Court sentenced a motorcyclist and two other men to death by hanging for the murder of a corps member. 

EKO HOT BLOG reports that an Osun State High Court in Ile-Ife sentenced three men to death by hanging on Tuesday for killing a corps member, Mukaila Adebayo, during a robbery operation in Osogbo.

The defendants, Jelili Kareem, a herbal seller, Oludayo Oludele, a commercial motorcyclist, and Muyiwa Awodeji, an electrician, were found guilty of conspiring to rob and murder Adebayo on January 28, 2020, in the Omo West Area of Osogbo.

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Their offences were deemed contrary to and punishable under Sections 316, 319, and 324 of the Criminal Code Law, Cap. 34, Vol. 2, Laws of Osun State, 2002.

Standing trial on offences bordering on conspiracy, armed robbery and murder, the defendants first appeared in court on October 8, 2020, and pleaded not guilty to all the counts pressed against them.

The prosecutor from the Ministry of Justice, Muyiwa Ogunleye, while addressing the court during the trial, said the daughter of the deceased was at the scene when Adebayo was shot dead by the defendants.

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Justice Adedapo Adeniji in his judgment, held that the prosecution had proven that the defendants committed the crime and subsequently convicted three of them for murder and armed robbery.

Motorcyclist Sentenced Death

Motorcyclist Sentenced Death

Adeniji thereafter sentenced Kareem, Oludele and Awodeji to death by hanging.

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