A Delta State High Court sitting in Warri yesterday sentenced one Chijioke Ede, a furniture maker to death by hanging, for robbing a couple and raping their teenage daughter. The condemned armed robber and rapist was arraigned before Justice Marshall Mukoro on a three-count charge of conspiracy to commit armed robbery, armed robbery and rape.
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.
Prosecution from the Delta State Ministry of Justice had told the court that Chijioke Ede, age 26, resident at No 17, Iyela Street, Warri with another person now at large, on or about October 12, 2009 at Okoro Street in Warri, off Marine Gate within the Warri Judicial Division, robbed his victims (names withheld) of DVD player, a laptop computer, cash, jewelries and other valuables at gun point and raped their teenage daughter while the parents watched helplessly.