FOR robbing a couple at gunpoint and raping their teenage daughter, a Delta High Court sitting in Warri, yesterday, sentenced a 26 year-old furniture maker, Chijioke Ede, to death by hanging.
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The condemned armed robber and rapist was arraigned on a three-count charge of conspiracy to commit armed robbery, armed robbery and rape before the court presided over by Justice Marshall Mukoro.
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He was found guilty on all the charges and sentenced to death on count one and two, while he got life imprisonment on the charge of rape.
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Prosecution from Delta State Ministry of Justice had told the court that Chijioke, from Enugu State, with another person still at large, on or about October 12, 2009, at Okoro Street, Warri, off Marine Gate, within the Warri Judicial Division, robbed his victims of a DVD player, a laptop computer, cash, jewelries and other valuables at gunpoint and also raped their teenage daughter.
Robbery and rape are serious offences in a country like Nigeria. Those perpetrators should try as much as possible to do away with it.