Nigeria | 5 years later, Court sentences Lagos pastor, one other to death for ritual killing of 7-year-old
The judge who said the duo deserved no mercy sentenced them to death after they pleaded guilty to killing the 7-year-old. An Ikeja Special Offences Court on Tuesday, August 9, 2022, sentenced one Pastor Erinmole Adetokunbo and one Adedoyin Oyekanmi to death for killing a seven-year-old boy for ritual purposes. Reports reaching Alimoshotoday state that the judge sentenced the duo to death after they pleaded guilty to the two-count charge brought against them by the state government. The convicts were charged with conspiracy to commit murder and murder, by the Lagos state government on October 30, 2017. The prosecution alleged that the convicts committed the offences on June 7, 2017, in the Odokekere area of Ikorodu in Lagos state, adding that the duo cut off the child’s head and buried it on a `church’ altar and threw the body into a canal. Although the accused persons initially pleaded not guilty upon arraignment, at the court session on Monday, August 8, 2022, O.A. Bajulaiye, the pros...