A Delta State High Court sitting in Orerokpe, Okpe Local Government
Area, has sentenced a 27-year-old David Erhirhie to death for being
found guilty of murder.
The court sentenced Erhirhie, a university worker, to death, having
been found guilty of the murder of Miss Chinoso Ijezie, an admission
seeker in 2009, an offence punishable under Section 319 of the Criminal
Code Law State Cap C 21 Law of Delta State.
Erhirhie, it will be recalled, who until the incident was a junior
staff with the Delta State University, Abraka, was involved in admission
racketeering and collected N155,000 from the deceased to assist her to
secure admission to the university from a private university somewhere
in Edo State, where she was already running a programme.
The convict, however, could not help with the admission and, in a bid
to cover up the fraud, lured the late Ijezie to his house, pretending
that he wanted to refund the said amount, but, instead, murdered and
secretly buried her in a shallow grave close to his house before he was
caught.
“The punishment for a crime of this magnitude is death penalty. This
accused does not deserve less. I hereby sentence you to death by hanging
of the neck until you are dead. May God have mercy upon your soul,” the
judge ruled.
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