Court sentences man to death by hanging
A Kano High Court presided over by Justice Kabiru Auta Wednesday
sentenced Abubakar Abdulrahaman, the killer of a Kano business tycoon,
Alh Ganiyu Akanbi Bello to death by hanging.
The accused, Abubakar Abdulrahaman AKA Daddy (28) was found guilty on
one-count charge of culpable homicide punishable with death.
He was discharged and acquitted in another charge of armed robbery.
Abubakar was accused of murdering Alh Bello on June 5, 2014 in his
residence on the night of the fateful day at the GRA Nassarawa, opposite
Kano Race Course when he stabbed the deceased in the heart with a
kitchen knife.
The Prosecution, led by Barr M. M. Suleiman of the State Ministry of
Justice and assisted by the nominal complainant Counsel, J. I.
Macaulay of Kehinde Olaitan Chamber called seven witnesses and
tendered several exhibits. The exhibits included the knife used by him
to stab Alh Bello and the Blackberry handset of the deceased inside
which he inserted his own SIM card which made the court to indict him
as part of circumstantial evidence.
Making his last plea for the accused, his Counsel from the Legal Aid
Council, Barr Adama urged the court to tamper justice with mercy
because of his aged mother, wife and children.
The trial judge in his final verdict said that the accused deserved no
mercy having committed a capital offence by murdering a bread winner
like him. Justice Auta remarked that the accused showed no remorse
throughout the trial. He returned a verdict of hanging by the neck for
the until pronounced dead, for the accused.
Abubakar broke down in tears after the verdict which made his mother to collapse in the open court.
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