Man who smashed A fellow Man Like Him on the head and stabbed him to death receives death sentence by hanging

An Ogun high court in Abeokuta on Friday sentenced a reveller, Rasheed Kareem, to loss of life by means of striking for the homicide of one Ahmed Muyideen.

In her judgment, Justice Olatokunbo Olopade said the convict, who became returning from a carnival smashed a bottle on Muyideen’s head and thereafter stabbed him with it, changed into guilty as charged.

Olopade, the chief judge of Ogun, stated that the prosecution had proved the unlawful act which led to the death of the deceased beyond reasonable doubt.

“With all of the evidence tendered in court docket throughout trial, i discovered that the accused individual had unlawfully triggered the death of the deceased.

“The act become achieved deliberately, so the court docket has found him (Kareem) guilty of the offence. I hereby sentence the accused to demise via placing,’’ she stated.

The leader judge said that the offence dedicated contravened phase 316, and changed into punishable underneath phase 391 of the criminal Code, law of Ogun 2006.

“phase 316 gives that any person who reasons the death of every other directly or not directly via any manner in any respect is deemed to have killed the character,’’ Olopade stated.

Newsmen report that the convict, who had been standing trial in view that 2015, had at his arraignment pleaded now not responsible to the fee.

Kareem changed into arrested and charged for breaking a bottle on the top of the deceased and stabbing him inside the stomach with it, inflicting his demise.

The prosecution suggest, Mr Olubankole Mafe, had set up in the course of trial that the convict committed the offence at about 8.00pm on Dec. 19, 2015 beneath ltoku Bridge in Abeokuta.

in step with prosecution witnesses, Muyideen had boarded a taxi even as coming back from a church programme.

The taxi, on attending to Itoku, turned into stated to have developed a fault,

one of the witnesses said that Muyideen and different passengers came all the way down to push the taxi off the street.

“while trying to push the taxi to a secure area for maintenance, the accused character who turned into coming from a community carnival came down from his motorcycle with an empty bottle and smashed it on Kareem’s head earlier than stabbing him inside the belly.

“Kareem become rushed to the Federal medical middle, Idi Aba, in Abeokuta, in which he obtained treatment, but later died after  days,” the witness said.

In his allocutus after the conviction of his patron, the defence recommend, Mr Oludotun Sotonade, advised the court docket to mood justice with mercy.