Court sentence two to death for killing mum in Delta

A Delta State High Court sitting successful the Kwale Judicial Division has sentenced a lad and his accomplice to decease by hanging for the gruesome execution of a mother.

They are 44-year-old Lucky Edozien and his accomplice, 33-year-old Amaechi Enuebuka.

The woman, Edozien’s mother, Mrs. Janeth Odinuwe, was accused of witchcraft.

The case, HCK/54C/2023 – State vs. Lucky Edozien & Amaechi Enuebuka, concluded connected March 25, 2026, with the tribunal convicting some defendants and sentencing them to decease by hanging.

Justice D.C. Maidoh delivered the judgement aft uncovering the defendants blameworthy of sidesplitting the 70-year-old pistillate astatine her location successful Umudike Quarters, Ossissa, Ndokwa West Local Government Area, connected April 13, 2023.

The tribunal held that their actions violated Section 319 of the Criminal Code Law (Cap C21, Vol. 1, Laws of Delta State, 2006).

Edozien allegedly claimed helium believed a ringing worn by his parent was liable for the hardships helium was facing.

The tribunal heard that Edozien promised Enuebuka philharmonic instruments successful speech for distracting the deceased’s sister, Mrs. Paulinah Okonji, by pretending to negociate the acquisition of scrap metallic located down the house.

The program allegedly allowed Edozien to participate his mother’s country unchallenged, wherever helium strangled her to death.

According to the prosec...