Supreme Court affirms death by hanging for Delta kidnapper, Chelynor Halim

The Supreme Court has affirmed the decease by hanging passed connected a convicted Delta-based kidnapper, Chelynor Halim.

In a unanimous determination on Friday, a five‑member sheet of the apex tribunal dismissed the convict’s entreaty arsenic lacking successful merit.

A High Court successful Asaba, Delta State had held successful 2017 that the impervious of grounds established Halim’s engagement successful equipped robbery and kidnapping.

The proceedings tribunal heard that the defendant, unneurotic with his accomplices, kidnapped 1 Joan Osemene connected February 9, 2014, and took her to an chartless determination successful Ibusa, Delta State.

Halim, who slapped the unfortunate and threatened her with a gun, aboriginal covered her chemoreceptor with a cloth containing a substance that caused her to walk out.

At the scene, the pack leader, identified arsenic Edozie Obude, was said to person grabbed the unfortunate by the throat, struck her cervix with a metallic object, and ordered that she beryllium thoroughly searched.

The victim, who testified during the trial, had told the tribunal that aft the search, the pack seized her ATM paper and N10,000 successful currency that she had connected her.

Subsequently, the gang...