By Emmanuel Onwusoro, Ado Ekiti
Monday May 5, 2025
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Justice Lekan Olatawura of Ekiti State High Court, sitting in Ado Ekiti, has sentenced 26-year-old David Isaiah to death by hanging for conspiracy, kidnapping, and murder.
The convict was arraigned before Justice Lekan Olatawura on 18th April 2024, on a three-count charge of conspiracy, kidnapping, and murder.
According to the prosecutor, the offenses are contrary to sections 280, 279 (a), and 234 of the Criminal Law of Ekiti State, 2021.
The charge reads that the defendant and Savior Daniel, who died during the pendency of the case on the 6th of February, 2024, in Ado Ekiti within the jurisdiction of this honorable court, did conspire to kidnap and murder one Comfort James, a commercial sex worker.
In his testimony before the court, the Director of Afrika Brothel, Irona, Ado Ekiti said, I was called by other commercial sex workers in the brothel, that they have not seen the deceased since yesterday, and also said, she had called to inform them that she had been kidnapped, tied her hands and demanding for a ransom of N100,000.
I went and reported the matter at the police station and later at the Civil Defence office.
Their telephone lines were tracked, and they were later arrested; they took the Civil Defence Officers to where they killed and dumped her dead body, he concluded.
To prove his case, the prosecutor, Ibironke Odetola called six witnesses and tendered the defendants statements, pictures of the deceased, a warrant to bury the corpse, a pair of slippers, sim cards, and herbicide as exhibits, while the defendant who spoke in his defense told the court that, after having sex with the deceased, they used her number to call her colleagues that she had been kidnapped and demanded a ransom of N100, 000.
Her hands and neck were tied when the ransom was not forthcoming, and when we discovered she had seen our faces clearly to avoid being implicated, we poured the herbicide in her mouth, and she later died; he called no witnesses.
In his judgment, Justice Olatawura said, I therefore find that the prosecution has proven beyond reasonable doubt that the defendant conspired with his late friend (Saviour Daniel) to kidnap and murder Comfort James.
Consequence upon the foregoing, the defendant is found guilty as charged.
Any sympathetic consideration in favor of the defendant cannot, therefore, be justified by the deceased.
Consequently, the defendant is sentenced to 21 years imprisonment for Conspiracy, life imprisonment for kidnapping, and murder; the judgment of this court upon you is that you be hanged by the neck until you are dead; may God have mercy on your soul, the judge pronounced.
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