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.