JUST IN: 2 found guilty of killing Cynthia Osokogu
- Two people have been convicted over the murder of a postgraduate student of the Nasarawa State University, Keffi, Cynthia Osokogu in 2012
- The individuals - Ezekiel Eloka and Echezona Nwabufor - were pronounced guilty of strangling Osokogu to death by a Lagos state High Court
Two people have been convicted over the murder of a postgraduate student of the Nasarawa State University, Keffi, Cynthia Osokogu in 2012.
The individuals - Ezekiel Eloka and Echezona Nwabufor - were pronounced guilty of strangling Osokogu to death by a Lagos state High Court.
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Premium Times reports that Justice Olabisi Akinlade while giving ruling on the matter said the evidence, testimonies of prosecution witnesses and confessional statement the deceased made to the police shows that the accused persons killed Osokogu.
Osokogu was killed by some of her social media friends in Lagos in 2012.
The friends - who she met on Facebook - had lured her to Lagos from Nasarawa state were she was running her postgraduate studies.
Akinlade in her ruling also said the accused were guilty of the second charge of felony leveled against them.
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She said the duo stole Osokogu's Blackberry phone and that the prosecution has proved beyond reasonable doubt that that accused persons intended and in fact took the life of Osokogu in the process of stealing her phone and other belonging.
The judge also declared the defendants guilty of conspiracy to commit murder and to steal.
However, Orji Osita, a pharmacist was discharged of recklessness and negligence for selling drug without prescription for the accused persons.
The defendants had used the medicine bought from Orji to drug the deceased who was killed at the Cosmilla Hotel, Lakeview Estate, Festac Town on July 22, 2012.
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