A Excessive Court docket in Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital, has sentenced three males to demise by hanging for kidnapping and homicide.
The convicts had been sentenced to demise for the kidnap and homicide of Chief Abbot Ogbobula in June 2017.
4 suspects had been charged with the kidnapping and homicide, however the court docket dismissed and acquitted one in every of them.
The three convicts are Boma Thompson, Emelike Mathias and Daniel Thankgod.
They had been discovered responsible of conspiracy to kidnap, kidnapping, conspiracy to homicide and homicide.
On conspiracy to kidnap, Choose Monina Danagogo, in a replica of the judgment he delivered on Thursday, sentenced the primary, second and fourth defendants to seven years in jail with out the potential for a effective.
Through the kidnapping, the decide sentenced the primary, second and fourth defendants to demise by hanging.
On prices of conspiracy to kill the late Chief Abbot Ogbobula, he sentenced them to 14 years in jail with out the choice of effective.
They had been discovered responsible of the homicide and sentenced to demise by hanging or deadly injection.
In June 2017, the late Ogbobula was kidnapped in Ahoada, Rivers State, and relocated to Manikin Bush in Degema LGA of the state, the place he later died by the hands of his kidnappers.
Though his captors buried him in a shallow grave within the bush, his physique was later exhumed throughout police investigations.
