For committing a really heinous crime in Katsina State, a man has been condemned to serve the capital punishment.
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A Katsina State High Court sitting in Funtua on Thursday sentenced
Mu’ammar Tukur, son of former District Head of Bakori, to death by
hanging.
The man is was sentenced to death for culpable homicide.
NAN reports that Tukur, 32, whose late father represented
Bakori/Danja Federal Constituency at Federal House of Representatives,
was convicted for using a knife to stabbed Shafir Muktar to death.
In his judgment, Justice Abbas Bawale said the prosecution led by
Mr Aminu Garba had established the case of culpable homicide against the
convict beyond reasonable doubt.
Bawale said the prosecution called five witnesses and tendered four
exhibits which established the three needed ingredients, including the
death of the victim, cause of the death and intention of the action.
He said the incident occurred on April 21, 2008, in a serial fight
between the convict and the some of the prosecution witnesses at viewing
centre. The judge said the defence counsel, Mr AbdulAziz Olagoke,
effort to contradict the evidence of the prosecution was futile.
He said the defence argument that the prosecution did not tender
the metallic material used in committing the offence could not be
sustained. The judge held that the convict ran way between 2008 and 2013
and was arrested at the graveyard during the funeral of his deceased
mother.
Bawale held that convict’s reliance on provocation was not material
because he left the scene and came with the metallic instrument to
perpetrate the action. He said the prosecution had proved the case
beyond a reasonable doubt as required by law and sentenced the convict
to death by hanging.
The judge also said the plea for leniency could not be entertained
because the court’s discretion was blocked by law and directed that the
plea should be set to the state governor. He advised the defence to file
its appeal within 90 days.
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