A Lagos State High Court in Ikeja has on Friday convicted and sentenced kidnap kingpin, Chukwudimeme Onwuamadike, otherwise known as, Evans, and two others to life imprisonment for conspiracy and kidnapping.
The trial judge, Justices Hakeem Oshodi convicted Evans, and found him guilty of a two-count charge of kidnapping the Managing Director of Maydon Pharmaceuticals Limited, Donatus Dunu.
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Others convicted alongside Evans are Uche Amadi, Okwuchukwu Nwachukwu.
Delivering the judgement, the judge held that the prosecution had successfully proven the charge against the three convicts beyond a reasonable doubt.
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He concluded that the evidence tendered before the court especially the videos evidence collaborated the guilty of the convicts.
However, the court discharged and acquitted Ogechi Uchechukw and two former soldiers of the Nigerian Army, Chilaka Ifeanyi and Victor Aduba for lack of sufficient evidence linking them to the crime.
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The state had claimed that the convicts committed the alleged offence between February 14 and April 12, 2017.
The prosecution had further told the court that the incident took place at about 7:45 pm, along Obokun Street, Ilupeju, Lagos.
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He disclosed that on April 12, Evans alongside the other five defendants while armed with guns and other weapons captured, detained and collected a ransom of £223,000 (N100 million) from the victim’s family.
Lagos State government had arraigned them before the court on August 30, 2017 Section 155 subsection 1 of the Administration of Criminal Justice Act 2017, carries life imprisonment.
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The prosecution closed its case against the defendants on January 10, 2020, after presenting four witnesses, including Dunu while the defence closed its case on August 3, 2020, after the six defendants testified.
More details to come.
