{"id":23902,"date":"2020-01-18T02:20:24","date_gmt":"2020-01-18T01:20:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=23902"},"modified":"2020-01-18T02:20:24","modified_gmt":"2020-01-18T01:20:24","slug":"they-hit-him-with-a-motorbike-proceeded-to-beat-him-to-coma-and-he-died-now-they-too-will-die-by-hanging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=23902","title":{"rendered":"They hit him with a motorbike, proceeded to beat him to coma, and he died. Now, they too will die by hanging"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Two to die by hanging for murder in Osun<\/strong><br \/>\nBy <strong>Victor Adeoti<\/strong> (NAN)<br \/>\nJustice Jide Falola of the Osun State High Court in Ikirun on Friday sentenced two men to death by hanging for murder.<br \/>\nFalola in his judgment, said the prosecution counsel proved his case against the convicts, Orisakunle Abiodun, 21; and Opadokun Olayinka, 29, beyond reasonable doubt for the murder of one Matthew Adeoye in Ikirun.<br \/>\nThe judge sentenced the convicts to five years imprisonment for conspiracy and death by hanging for murder.<br \/>\nFalola, however, discharged and acquitted the third accused, Femi Aroyehun for lack of evidence against him.<br \/>\nThe convicts, who were first arraigned on Jan. 22, 2018, pleaded not guilty to the two-count charge of conspiracy to commit murder and murder, preferred against them.<br \/>\nThe State Counsel, Mr Philips Afolayan, had earlier told the court that the three defendants murdered one Matthew Adeoye on March 9, 2017 in Ikirun.<br \/>\nAfolayan said the offences were contrary to and punishable under Section 324 of the Criminal Code Law, Cap. 34, Vol. 2, Laws of Osun State and Section 316 (1) and punishable under Section 319 (1) of the same Criminal Code Law of Osun State.<br \/>\nAfolayan told the court that on that fateful day, one of the convicts, Abiodun, used his motorcycle to hit the deceased while returning from work with his friend.<br \/>\nThe prosecution counsel said that this resulted in an argument between the deceased and the three convicts.<br \/>\nAfolayan said the convicts and some of their supporters descended on the deceased, who later ran for his life.<br \/>\nHe said the deceased was beaten to coma with grievous injury inflicted on him.<br \/>\nAfolayan said the deceased was later rushed to a nearby hospital by the police, where he eventually died on the same day.<br \/>\nThe Defence Counsel, Mr L.S. Bello, however, pleaded with the court to temper justice with mercy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two to die by hanging for murder in Osun By Victor Adeoti (NAN) Justice Jide Falola of the Osun State High Court in Ikirun on Friday sentenced two men to death by hanging for murder. Falola in his judgment, said the prosecution counsel proved his case against the convicts, Orisakunle Abiodun, 21; and Opadokun Olayinka, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":16886,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[512,794],"class_list":["post-23902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-death","tag-hanging"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23902","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23902"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23902\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}