AN Abia State High Court sitting in Umuahia on Monday convicted Corporal Umaru Mohammed for the murder of a fellow officer, Corporal Clement Amaechi, who was attached to Abia State Government House, on July 19, 2011.
He was sentenced to death by hanging for the crime he committed at their official residence at Okpara Avenue, near Government House. In his judgment, Justice Agwu Uma Kalu ruled that the prosecution proved beyond doubt that the gunshots fired at the deceased by the convict killed him and that the punishment for the offence is death.
According to him, the accused deserved no sympathy, hence he ordered that he should be hanged by the neck until confirmed dead. But reacting to his conviction outside the court, Mohammed warned against being handcuffed by prison officials while being taken to the Umuahia Prisons.
The Abia Police Command had, after the incident, subjected Mohammed to orderly room trial and reportedly dismissed him from the Force eventually.
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