On Monday, the Lagos High Court, sitting at Tafawa Balewa Square on Lagos Island, condemned Drambi Vandi, a suspended assistant superintendent of police, to death by hanging for the murder of Mrs. Omobolanle Raheem, a lawyer from Lagos.
The ASP was sentenced by Justice Ibironke Harrison after she declared him guilty of killing the expectant lawyer.
According to Harrison, the prosecution had established its case beyond a reasonable doubt.
The judge concluded that the victim was shot at close range by the offender.
According to The Anaedoonline, the court rejected a “no case submission” put forth by Vandi in April.
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Justice Harrison ordered the defendant to open his defence as a ‘prima facie’ has been made against him.
In his application on the no-case submission, Vandi had asked the court to dismiss the suit and discharge him claiming that he had no case to answer.
In his arguments, the defence counsel, Adetokunbo Odutola, told the court to note among other things that none of the eyewitnesses saw the defendant shoot and that the ballistic report of the gun allegedly fired expressly stated that the bullet could not be linked with any of the firearms recovered from the police officers at the scene.
Oduntola who argued that the pathologist who testified mentioned that the bullet penetrated from the left through the armpit while the prosecution stated that the deceased was shot in the chest.
However, the prosecution led by the Attorney General of Lagos State, Moyosore Onigbanjo (SAN), had countered the arguments and urged the defendant to defend himself insisting that the prosecution had successfully made its case against him.
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