A high court sitting in Owerri, the Imo State capital, has sentenced 8 persons to death by hanging for their involvement in the brutal murder of one Nze Dominic Ohamadiaku Duru, an ex-Police officer from Izombe in Oguta Local Government Area of the state. High Court 7, Owerri, presided over by Hon. Justice C.M.I. Egole, found the accused persons guilty of murder, following an overwhelming evidence before it, even as it freed the ninth accused person, Sussana James Duru, for having not actively participated in the dastardly act.
The convicted persons who were all found guilty of first degree murder are: James Ugwuoha Duru, Fester Nuforo, Alexander Nnadi (Alias Apollo), Friday Nuforo, Jonathan Chuddy Nnadi, Chifoanu Okorie, Mattias Ohazurike and Evans Egbujor. Delivering the landmark judgement in suit number HOW/4C/2007, the presiding Judge analysed all the evidence before it and found eight, out of the nine accused persons guilty of conspiracy and murder. “You are to be hanged by your neck until you are drained of your life breath and you are dead and may God have mercy on your soul,” the judgement reads in part. Investigations revealed that the freed Sussana James-Ugwuoha (wife of James Ugwuoha Duru) was linked to one of the murderers by marriage and although she is said to have accompanied her husband to the house of the deceased on the fateful day to lure him to the scene of the crime, she hadn’t actively participated in the dastardly act. The accused was therefore freed and allowed to return home.
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