News: Policeman To Die By Hanging For Murder

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A Gusau High Court on Thursday sentenced a police corporal, Anthony Azare, attached to Kaura Namoda Police Division, to death by hanging for culpable homicide and trespass.
In his judgment, Justice Mukhtari Yusha’u, found Mr. Azare guilty of causing the death of one Yusuf Abubakar on April 22, 2011.

Mr. Azare with two others entered the residence of the deceased and shot him with AK47 rifle in the shoulder and lower abdomen which resulted in his death.
Justice Yusha’u, who relied on the evidence of the wife of the deceased, Aisha Yusuf, held that her testimony remained consistent.
The judge held that the evidence of the defence was “disjointed and inconsistent.” He subsequently sentenced Mr. Azare to death by hanging under Section 221 of the Penal Code.

He said the refusal of the accused to take the decease to hospital after the shooting and his exit from the house by jumping over the wall to join his colleagues pointed to the fact that he intended to kill his victim through “excessive force and brutality’’.