Court sentences two to death in Delta for armed robbery, murder

Delta State High Court sitting successful Effurun, adjacent Warri, has sentenced 2 men to decease aft it recovered them blameworthy of conspiracy, equipped robbery and murder.

They are Akpobor Erhianor and Tibra Cornelius, 2nd and 3rd defendants successful the lawsuit with complaint No. EHC/19C/2023, involving the State against them and Edafe Adu and Oghenewegba Cadeton successful transportation with a bid of convulsive robberies and killings crossed parts of the state.

The 4th defendant, Oghenewegba Cadeton, who was charged with belonging to an unlawful society, was discharged and acquitted aft the tribunal held that the prosecution failed to found the complaint against him.

Presided implicit by Justice N. Obi, the 1st defendant, Edafe Adu, entered into a plea bargain with the prosecution and was subsequently convicted to situation terms.

‎The prosecution, led by Miss Phoebian Onomakpome, an Assistant Director successful the Delta State Ministry of Justice, told the tribunal that the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd defendants, alongside others inactive astatine large, carried retired a bid of equipped robberies and fatal attacks betwixt July and August 2022 successful antithetic parts of Delta State.

‎According to the prosecution, connected July 26, 2022, the defendants, portion equipped with firearms, robbed a car dealer, Trust Dick, astatine Okuokoko successful Okpe section authorities country and made distant with a Toyota Camry and a Lexus Jeep.

‎The tribunal besides heard that o...