One Chidozie Onyinchiz, a vulcaniser, has been sentenced to death by hanging for robbing a nurse of N57,000 in Lagos.<\/p>\n
The 32-year-old was convicted and sentenced by Ikeja Special Offences Court presided over by Justice Mojisola Dada.<\/p>\n
Justice Dada held that the prosecution had proved the three-count charge of conspiracy, armed robbery and membership of an unlawful society against Onyinchiz.<\/p>\n
Dada said the convict\u2019s attempt escape of the charges was futile.<\/p>\n
This, she said was because he had earlier confirmed to the police at Igando, Lagos, that his victim, Mrs Veronica Uwayzor sighted him and they both recognised each other at the time of the offence.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe defendant had stated that the complainant pointed at him as one of the boys armed with a pair of scissors and forcefully snatched her bag containing N57,000 at Akesan Bus Stop.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe complainant had stated that neither the defendant nor his accomplice, Ediri Endurance, (still at large) wore masks which made it possible for her to easily recognise Onyinchiz few hours after the robbery.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe first statement of the defendant which he made at Igando Police Station confirmed that he and Ediri went to Akesan Bus Stop on the day of the robbery.<\/p>\n
\u201cOnyinchiz admitted to belonging to an unlawful society as he stated that: `this is my first time of coming to Akesan to steal. I was initiated into Eiye Confraternity in 2009 but I have not killed before.\u2019<\/p>\n
\u201cThe same information of him being a vulcaniser was also contained in the statement he made at Igando police station and the one he made at the Special Anti-Robbery Squad office at Ikeja.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn his confessional statement, Onyinchiz stated that he met Ediri Endurance in a public bus and Endurance took him to his father\u2019s house after the bus developed fault.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe also stated that they ended up sleeping in an uncompleted building because Endurance\u2019s father did not open the door for them to spend the night in his house.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe statement corroborated the submission of the victim that she was accosted at about 4.30 a.m. by two boys holding an iron rod and a pair of scissors on the day of the incident.<\/p>\n
\u201cShe said the two boys were the ones who robbed her.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe totality of the evidence before the court is compelling and I find the defendant guilty of the charges preferred against him.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe is hereby sentenced to death by hanging and may God have mercy on his soul,\u2019\u2019 Justice Dada said.<\/p>\n
The state prosecutor, Mrs Afolake Onayinka had earlier told the court the convict committed the offences with an accomplice still at large on Aug.12, 2018.<\/p>\n
Onayinka submitted that the complainant ran into a white garment church after the defendant robbed her.<\/p>\n
The shepherd of the church alerted landlords in the area which led to the arrest of Onyinchiz while Endurance escaped, she said.<\/p>\n
Onayinka submitted that the offences contravened the Criminal Law of Lagos State, 2015.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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