Justice Ibironke Harrison of a Lagos Excessive Court docket has sentenced a police officer, Darambi Vandi, to demise by placing for taking pictures a Lagos-primarily primarily based mostly attorney, Mrs Omobolanle Raheem, to demise last Christmas.
Recall that the defendant shot Raheem within the chest on December 25, 2022, at Ajah Roundabout, on Lekki- Throughway, Lagos Announce.
The prosecution crew, led by the Attorney-Frequent and Commissioner for Justice, Mr Moyosore Onigbanjo, known as 11 witnesses, together with eight law enforcement officials.
Different prosecution witnesses encompass two eyewitnesses and a pathologist.
Harrison, the trial resolve, in her ruling on Monday, convicted Vandi of a one-count fee of slay.
“The court docket finds the defendant responsible on one count of slay. You shall be hanged by the neck until you would possibly very well be ineffective,” the resolve dominated.
Harrison also pushed apart the defendant’s inform that the loud gunshot heard in some unspecified time in the future of the incident became that of a firecracker.
She held that a firecracker would possibly presumably no longer have killed the deceased, asserting that easiest the defendant will have shot the deceased to demise.
The resolve, on the opposite hand, permitted the testimony of the deceased’s sister that the officer threatened to shoot her after he had shot on the deceased.