Monday 6 July 2015

Supreme Court affirms ex-employee’s life sentence for attempted murder

The Supreme Court has affirmed the life sentence passed on Kingsley Omoregie and Shina Oketaolegun for attempting to murder an engineer, Samuel Fakoya, in Ikoto-Ijebu, Ogun State, on August 27, 2002.


Fakoya was found dead in a sitting posture, with his hands tied to the railing of the stair case in his home, blood on his head and three stab wounds discovered on his chest, after the visit of the two men.


Omoregie, who was Fakoya's former employee, was accompanied to his former boss' home by Oketaolegun, purportedly to collect his salary arrears on the day the incident took place.


But the Supreme Court on Friday affirmed the judgment of the Court of Appeal in Ibadan which had commuted the offence of murder for which the accused persons were convicted and sentenced to death by an Ogun State High Court in Ijebu-Ode on March 7, 2005, to attempted murder, and as a result, reduced the death penalty passed on them to life imprisonment.


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