A Lagos High Court Sitting at the Tafawa Balewa Square on Lagos Island, on Monday sentenced the suspended Assistant Superintendent of Police, Drambi Vandi, who killed a Lagos-based lawyer, Mrs. Omobolanle Raheem, to death by hanging.
Justice Ibironke Harrison convicted the ASP after finding him guilty of the murder of the pregnant lawyer.
Harrison held that the prosecution was able to prove its case beyond reasonable doubt.
“The court found the defendant guilty on one count of murder. You will be hanged by the neck till you are dead,” Harrison said.
CHECKPOINTCHARLEY reported that on 25 December 2022, Vandi allegedly killed Mrs Raheem at the Ajah roundabout in Lagos.
She was reportedly pregnant at the time of the incident.
The Lagos state government had charged the police man for murder and subsequently arraigned in court.
During the trial, the deceased’s husband, sister, police armourer, pathologist and seven others have testified against the defendant.
The prosecution tendered 27 exhibits.
Vandi was the only witness who testified in his own defence.
In his testimony before the court, Vandi told the judge that the bullet presented in court which was said to have killed Mrs Raheem did not come from the rifle he carried on the day of the incident.
He also claimed that he had never seen the bullet until it was tendered in court.
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