Nsikak Ibatt
The Akwa Ibom State High Court in Itu legal division has condemned one Utibe Daniel Etim to death by hanging over the homicide of his dad.
The denounced, a moderately aged young fellow, was charged on one include of homicide 2016.
It was assembled that the charged submitted the offense following a contention that resulted among him and his dad on the sharing recipe for the bramble rabbit he got.
The contention, it was scholarly, prompted difference amid which he lost his temper and utilized a hatchet to hit his dad’s head.
The deceased, Mr. Daniel Etim, a customary bone authority, is accounted for to have kicked the bucket later in the healing center because of the head wounds caused on him by his child.
Conveying judgment on the issue in suit N0 HIT/21c/2016, Justice Edem Akpan pronounced that the indictment, having called five observers, including a pathologist who led the examination, has demonstrated the case past sensible uncertainty.
The managing judge saw the contentions of the two insight and noticed that the blamed, who was his solitary observer in the issue, had prior conceded in his confession booth articulation to the Police that he hit his dad with a hatchet on the head after a contention which followed over the chased diversion and, appropriately, condemned him to death by hanging.
“The sentence of the court upon you, Utibe Daniel Etim, is that you be hanged by the neck until the point when you be dead; and may the Lord show leniency upon your spirit,” the managing judge ruled.
