Driver, carpenter to die by hanging for armed robbery in Ondo

An Ondo State High Court sitting successful Akure has sentenced a carpenter, Lasisi Nureni, and a driver, Akintan Adebayo, to decease by hanging for equipped robbery.

Justice William Olamide convicted the 2 men connected a two-count complaint of conspiracy to perpetrate equipped robbery and equipped robbery, contrary to Sections 6(b) and 1(2)(a) and (b) of the Robbery and Firearms (Special Provisions) Act, Cap. R11, Vol. 14, Laws of the Federation of Nigeria, 2004.

The tribunal sentenced each of the convicts to 7 years’ imprisonment for conspiracy to perpetrate equipped robbery and to decease by hanging for equipped robbery.

With some defendants pleading not blameworthy to the charges, the prosecution’s lawsuit was based connected the grounds of a chap driver, Omojolowo Boluwaji, and connected constabulary probe that tracked 1 of the stolen mobile phones to Osun State.

Boluwaji said the assailants demanded the keys to his recently acquired vehicle, adding that erstwhile helium refused to surrender them, they overpowered him, bushed his wife, and stole his vehicle, 5 mobile phones, a laptop, jewellery, N900,000 belonging to his wife, and different N490,000.

Inspector Omotadowa Sunday, a constabulary officer, told the tribunal that the constabulary tracked 1 of the stolen phones to Imesi, Osun State, w...