Blessing Iruoma, Port Harcourt
A Rivers State High court, sitting in Port Harcourt, on Monday, sentenced three persons to death by hanging for the kidnap and murder of a 32-year-old lawyer, Sampson Worlu, in 2015.
The three convicts, Chiwendu Alozie, Wilfred Jumbo and Gift Amadi, were tried for kidnapping, conspiracy to murder and murder.
They were arrested in 2016 with the help of investigation conducted by the Department of State Services (DSS) after the family of the Late young Lawyer Sampson Worlu reported the matter.
The trial judge, Justice Chiwendu Nwogu who convicted the three persons said evidence provided by the prosecution team and the confessional statements by the accused are weighty enough and the court relied on them to deliver the judgment.
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Justice Nwogu said the court is convinced that they committed the crime, adding that the law could not look the other way round.
Meanwhile, one Chijioke Wisdom, one of the persons arrested along with the three convicted persons, died while in prison custody and three others who allegedly participated in the kidnapping and murder of the late lawyer are still at large.
Two members of the victim’s family, Charles Worlu and George Chindah, shortly after the court proceedings expressed joy that Justice have been served but regretted that the kidnappers despite taking ransom of one million from them still went ahead to kill a young lawyer who was on one year mandatory NYSC service at Imo State.
