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A Katsina State High Court sitting in Malumfashi on Friday sentenced one Aminu Ibrahim of Rogo Local Government in Kano State to death by hanging, for armed robbery.
The offence was committed on Sept. 2011 on Kafur-Malumfashi road, where victims were robbed of their valuables.
In his Judgement, Justice Abas Bawale held that the prosecution had succeeded in proving its case beyond reasonable doubt and that witnesses had established before the court that Ibrahim was arrested at the scene of the crime during which one of his accomplices was shot dead while others escaped.
The court, therefore, dismissed efforts to discountenance the testimonies of witnesses by the defence counsel, Mr A.I. Radda, and sentenced the convict to death by hanging.
The convict, on hearing the verdict, immediately attempted to commit suicide in the court's cell room using an iron bar.
He was, however, overpowered by prison warders who struggled with him for minutes before pinning him down and dragging him into a waiting vehicle.
The offence was committed on Sept. 2011 on Kafur-Malumfashi road, where victims were robbed of their valuables.
In his Judgement, Justice Abas Bawale held that the prosecution had succeeded in proving its case beyond reasonable doubt and that witnesses had established before the court that Ibrahim was arrested at the scene of the crime during which one of his accomplices was shot dead while others escaped.
The court, therefore, dismissed efforts to discountenance the testimonies of witnesses by the defence counsel, Mr A.I. Radda, and sentenced the convict to death by hanging.
The convict, on hearing the verdict, immediately attempted to commit suicide in the court's cell room using an iron bar.
He was, however, overpowered by prison warders who struggled with him for minutes before pinning him down and dragging him into a waiting vehicle.
