Man To Die By Hanging For Killing Father
A 47-year-old man, Blessing Olumakinde has been sentenced to death by a High Court sitting in Ado Ekiti for killing his father, Benson Egunlae over inheritance of a a parcel of land .
The 18 children and the six wives of the deceased were said to be at loggerheads over the modalities to be adopted in the sharing of his parcels of land.
Blessing, who was not satisfied with the portion of land allotted to him, reportedly traced his father to the farm and attacked him with cutlass and axe killing him in the process and ran away.
Other children who were shocked to meet their father in a pool of his own blood immediately took Egunlae to the hospital where he was confirmed dead.
The accused was said to have ran away for six months after committing the murder before turning himself over to the Police after which he arraigned on one-count charge of murder.
In his judgment, the state Chief Judge, Justice Ayodeji Daramola, who handed down the sentence held that evidence before the court showed that the accused was guilty of murder as charged.
He held that the prosecution has proved the case beyond the reasonable doubt hence the accused should be hanged by the neck until life goes out of him.
The Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice, Owoseni Ajayi, represented the state while the accused person was represented by Morakinyo Ogele.
The prosecution called two witnesses in the course of trial while the accused testified in his defence.
Exhibits, including the axe and cutlass with which the accused stabbed his father on the head and the chest and pictures were tendered and admitted.
The accused in his confessional statement to the Police admitted killing his father in the hut on the farm.
