Four-member kidnapping ring, including a 27-year-old woman, has been sentenced to death by hanging or lethal injection by Special Court for Kidnapping and Cultism in Benin City, Edo State.
The suspects, Marvelous Isaac, 32; Gift Raphael, 27; Wisdom Michael; and Rufus Michael, were arraigned before the court on an 11-count charge bordering on kidnapping, conspiracy, armed robbery, possession of firearms, among other offences.
The court, presided over by Justice Aigbona Terry Momodu, however, held that the prosecution had proved its case beyond reasonable doubt and therefore sentenced them to death by hanging or lethal injection.
The convicts had reportedly abducted a woman at the Vegetable Market, off Airport Road in Benin City, but her husband escaped.
Recall that Governor Monday Okpebholo had, following the Vegetable Market incident, set up a Special Court to try cases of kidnapping and cultism.
