Court sentences man to death for murder in Kano

A Kano State High Court has sentenced a 21-year-old man, Umar Idris, to decease by hanging for the sidesplitting of a store owner, Sabiu Umar.

Idris, a nonmigratory of Farawa Quarters successful Kumbotso Local Government Area, was recovered blameworthy of culpable homicide pursuing a proceedings successful which the prosecution established that helium fatally stabbed the 28-year-old victim.

Prosecution counsel, Lamido Abba-Sorondinki, told the tribunal that the incidental occurred connected September 2, 2021, astatine Tsamiya Mariri Quarters successful Kano. He explained that Idris unlawfully entered the victim’s store astatine astir 10:30 p.m., wherever Sabiu some worked and lived, and stole wedding garments intended for his bride.

According to the prosecution, the deceased raised an alarm aft discovering the intrusion, starring to a confrontation. During the struggle, Idris allegedly attacked him with a knife, inflicting aggregate injuries to his neck, enarthrosis and different parts of his body, which yet led to his death.

The prosecution presented 3 witnesses and tendered the defendant’s confessional connection arsenic evidence. However, Idris denied committing the offence.

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