Court sentences three to death over murder of pharmacist in Rivers

A Rivers State High Court sitting successful Port Harcourt has sentenced 3 persons to decease by hanging for their roles successful the kidnapping and execution of a pharmacist, Muenalo Sunday, successful Khana Local Government Area of the state.

The proceedings judge, Justice Augusta Chukwu, handed down the decease condemnation connected Friday to Confidence Kirinee, popularly known arsenic General Illa, Precious Mona, and Soniabari Sagha aft uncovering them blameworthy of conspiracy, cultism, kidnapping and murder.

In the aforesaid judgment, the tribunal convicted Loveday Legah for rank of a concealed cult radical linked to the transgression and sentenced him to beingness imprisonment.

The justice besides held that the prosecution had successfully established the charges against the convicts beyond tenable doubt.

The tribunal recovered that the accused persons, who were identified arsenic members of the Iceland cult group, were liable for the abduction and sidesplitting of the unfortunate connected March 5, 2019, successful Zaakpo community, Khana LGA.

The justice relied connected confessional statements and different grounds presented during the proceedings to reason that the defendants acted successful performance to kidnap and mur...