Man To Die By Hanging For Killing Friend

Bauchi State High Court has sentenced one Musa Hamza, a middle-aged man from Alkaleri local government, to death by hanging after he was found guilty of killing his 17-year-old friend Adamu Ibrahim.

LEADERSHIP reports that the convict had lured his friend to a nearby bush in Alkaleri and killed him. He cut his head and perforated his eyes.

Delivering his judgement, Justice Faruk Umar Sarki of High Court no 10 sitting in Bauchi said having found the accused guilty of the offence, he should be hanged to death in accordance with the provision of section 221 of the Penal Code Law.

He said the accused admitted to committing the offence, adding that he buried his friend’s body and cut-off the head at two different locations. However, he put his friend’s eyes in a bottle without supplying additional details as to what he intends to do with the eyeballs.

The judgement came on the heels of a suit by a team of lawyers from the Bauchi State Ministry of Justice against the convict, who initially denied committing the offence.

Before the judgement was given, the prosecutors presented six witnesses, while the defence counsel presented only one witness.

The prosecutors’ witnesses said that the boy’s father brought a complaint that his son did not return home on the day, but he heard information that he was seen with the accused and that they went out, three of them at night and ate dinner together.

They added that there was no fight between them, and they did not insult each other, later, one of them left the accused and the deceased together, but when the suspect was asked, he said that he too left him. But after the convict was arrested, police searched his room and found the phone and sim card of the deceased in his place. When the phone was found with the suspect, the investigation continued and later he confessed to the crime.