A high court in Bauchi sentenced a man named Musa Hamza to hang for murdering his friend.
A tribunal presided over by Judge Faruk Sarki found him guilty of murdering his teenage friend, slitting his throat, removing both eyes, and bottling the eyes before burying his head and body in various places. , convicted the man.
Bauchi State Department of Justice Attorneys Mohammed Ibrahim, Salif Haruna and Ali Yousuf commenced the trial of the convicted and charged him with murder, the punishment of which was imposed under Federal Law No. 221. He pointed out that the death penalty was based on the article. criminal law.
The prosecutor said in court that defendant Hamza, from Al-Kaleri district, Bauchi state, lured his 17-year-old friend Adam his Ibrahim, beat him with a stick, removed his head and his two eyes, then head and head. said to have filled the bodies are in different places.
The defendant, who initially denied the allegations against him in court, later pleaded guilty.
The prosecutors, in their bid to prove their case, presented six witnesses, while the defence presented one witness — the accused person.
The witnesses said the deceased’s father brought a complaint that his son did not return home, but he got information that he was seen with the accused after they went out with one other person at night and ate dinner together.
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The other person told the court that on that fateful day, he left the accused with the deceased together. But when the accused was asked, he claimed that he also left him.
However, when the Police arrested and searched him, they found the deceased’s phone with the sim card in his (accused’s) possession.
The investigation continued and he later confessed to committing the crime, and explained that he took the deceased to a forest and killed him there; adding that he removed his head and plucked out his eyes.
The accused then took the Police to where the body of the deceased was buried.
When he was asked where the eyes were, he said he left them in his house in a bottle. Police went and recovered the eyes and exhumed the body and took it to the Alkaleri General Hospital where a medical doctor certified him dead.
All efforts made by counsel for the accused, Mahmud Maidoki, to defend the accused were unsuccessful.
The Presiding Judge, Justice Sarki, while delivering his judgement, said that based on the statements of the witnesses and confessional statement of the accused, the court found that he (the accused) committed the crime of murder with intent.
He also refused to agree to his request for leniency sought by the defence counsel and therefore, sentenced the accused to death by hanging based on section 273 and 221 of the Penal code law to serve as a deterrent to others.
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