The Akwa Ibom State Division of the High Court, Uyo, has sentenced a 31-year-old man to death by hanging for killing his girlfriend over alleged infidelity.
Convict Ubon Edet Udo, a native of Use Ndon in Ibiono Ibom LGA, received the verdict from Chief Judge Ntong Festus Ntong at the State Judiciary Headquarters in Uyo over the weekend.
Ubon Udo, a welding and aluminum manufacturer, was found guilty of the murder of Emem Effiok James, a 22-year-old native of Ikot Anyan Itam in Itu Prefecture.
The convict is said to have brutally murdered his lover by plugging his manufacturing machine into a power outlet and piercing her body while she slept.
The incident was found to have occurred on December 7, 2018, after a series of feuds between the convict and the girlfriend, whom he accused of always being too close to a neighbor, a patent drug dealer.
In the three-hour ruling, Judge Ntong said; “You, Ubon Udo, must be hanged until you are dead,” admonishing God to have mercy on his soul.
The convict, who asked for leniency, fought back tears and applied for a commutation of the sentence, saying his elderly parents would have no one to look after them in his absence.
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