LAGOS, Nigeria (VOICE OF NAIJA)- A High Court in Port Harcourt has sentenced one Promise Thompson to death by hanging for shooting one Chidiebere Ogbugu and stealing his five-year-old child.
Thompson and his accomplice, Beatrice Ogbunka, stood trial on a three-count of armed robbery, kidnapping and child theft.
The incident was said to have occurred on 25 October, 2018 in Rumuolumeni, Obio/Akpor Local Government Area of Rivers State.
According to reports, Ogbunka the accomplice had fled after she was granted bail by the Police.
In his ruling, the presiding judge, Justice Sika Henry-Aprioku, stated that the prosecution counsel’s evidence showed that Thompson took the child to Abia State and sold him to a syndicate, who in turn sold the child to another syndicate.
Justice Henry-Aprioku also sentenced one Chisom Lucky to seven years imprisonment, while her husband, Lucky, bagged a 10-year sentence for child theft, for buying the child from Thompson and selling him off afterwards.