Student Who
Killed His Girlfriend Sentenced To Death By Hanging.
A
High Court sitting in Akure, Ondo state has sentenced Chukwudi Onweniwe, the man who killed his
girlfriend, an HND student of Rufus Giwa Polytechnic Owo, Nifemi Adeyeoye to death by hanging.
Chukwudi
Onweniwe was dragged before the court in May 22 2017 on a four count charge of
action endangering life, kidnapping and abduction, rape and murder.
According
to the Prosecutor, Jumoke Ogunjebi said the accused person abducted the
deceased and took her “to a farm near Alayere, Ogbese, raped her and then
snuffed life out of her by choking and strangulating her to death.
The
police prosecutor, Inspector John Aderibigbe said that one of the motorcyclists
who testified in the case reported the suspicious movement of the accused
person and the deceased at the police station.
Aderibigbe said that the case was later
transferred to Special Anti Cultism Squad in Akure.
Testifying,
the mother of the deceased, Mrs Adeyeoye said her daughter had informed her she
was going to visit her friend on the day she went missing.
Adeyeoye
claimed she did not know the accused person though he was said to be her
daughter’s boyfriend. According to her ”l did not see my daughter again after
she got missing until police men invited me to come to the mortuary to identify
a corpse whether it was that of my daughter or not.
Also
giving evidences the two motorcyclists who saw the lover birds together on the
ill fated day told the court that they conveyed them to a spot in town.
Justice
Bola said that an autopsy was carried out by one Dr. Pelemo, a staff of Ondo
state Specialist Hospital, Akure who described the abnormal state of the
deceased’s neck and fracture of the skull. According to him
“it suggested that the deceased had been
attacked by an object with a blunt edge which led to her death. The judge
stated that the accused person had confessed to the officers of the squad
according to the testimony of one Ayoola Famoriyo and had taken his team to the
spot where he hid the corpse of the deceased.
“There,
the accused person had pointed to the spot where she kept the corpse and it was
taken to the mortuary while the stone found near her head with which he had
purportedly hit her skull was taken to the police station as an exhibit.
“Famoriyo
had further testified that a search of the accused person’s room had revealed
the deceased’s belongings such as a school bag, wallet, some GNLD products, her
phone and 22 passport photographs.
The
father of the accused person Nwosu Onweniwe while giving evidence in defense of
his son told the court that the deceased was his son’s girlfriend who had been
very helpful to him.
Meanwhile, after examining all facts of the
case, Justice Bola while delivering judgement said that the prosecution had
proven its case beyond reasonable doubt in three out of the four count charges.
The Judge observed that the prosecution failed
to prove the case of rape against the accused person.
He therefore found him guilty as charged on
three counts and sentenced him as charged. Justice Bola declared that “On the
count of kidnapping, he was sentenced to life imprisonment, on strangulating
and choking, he was sentenced to death by hanging and on murder, he was also
sentenced to death by hanging.
In
a previous confession to the police, Chukwudi denied that he killed her for
rituals as he claimed that he had killed her for the fun of it.
“I
did not remove any part of her body; I only killed her for the fun of it. I
made love with her in the bush before killing her. I am not a cultist. It was
when I killed her that I realised I made a big mistake and I wept bitterly,” he
said. He added that the devil pushed him to do it.
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