Court sentences reverend to death by hanging
Ezeugo was arraigned on a six-count charge of attempted murder and
murder. He pleaded not guilty to the charges but he was eventually
sentenced to death by the then Justice Joseph Oyewole of the Lagos state
high court, Ikeja
Chukwuemeka Ezeugo, General Overseer of the Christian Praying Assembly (better known as Reverend King) has reportedly be sentenced by the Supreme Court to death by hanging.
On September 26, 2006, Ezeugo
was arraigned on a six-count charge of attempted murder and murder. He
pleaded not guilty to the charges but he was eventually sentenced to
death by the then Justice Joseph Oyewole of the Lagos state high court,
Ikeja, on January 11, 2007, for the murder of one of his church members,
Ann Uzoh.
The Lagos State government said the
convict poured petrol on the deceased and five other persons and that
Uzoh died on August 2, 2006 – 11 days after the act was perpetrated on
her.
Specifically, Ezeugo was convicted and sentenced to 20 years imprisonment for the attempted murder, and death by hanging for the offence of murder.
Dissatisfied, he challenged the verdict before the court of appeal in Lagos, but the appeal was thrown out. ’’I
hereby rule that the prosecution effectively discharged the burden of
proof on it. This appeal is devoid of any basis and accordingly fails,” Justice Fatimo Akinbami had said while reading the judgment.
“The
judgment of the high court is hereby affirmed, and the conviction
imposed on the appellant (which is death by hanging), is also affirmed.”
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