According to Guardian, the accused, 24-year-old Vincent Okwekwu along with two other accomplices who are at large, broke into an individual’s flat in November 2009, and robbed them of N10,000 and a mobile phone while armed with a gun and cutlass.
The owners of the flat raised an alarm during the incident and Okwekwu was arrested, but his accomplices escaped.
Okwekwu was convicted for “conspiracy to commit armed robbery, the substantive offence of armed robbery, which was reduced to a lesser offence of robbery.”
He was subsequently sentenced to death by hanging for the offence of conspiracy, and got a 21-year jail term for the other two counts.
