By our reporter| Three men were on Friday sentenced to death by hanging by an Ondo state high court sitting in Akure for killing Olufunke Olakunrin, the daughter of Afenifere leader, Pa Reuben Fasoranti.
While four persons were accused of the crime Lawal Mazaje, 40, Adamu Adamu, 50, Mohammed Usman, 26, and Auwal Abubakar, 25, the trial judge, Justice William Olamide, discharged and acquitted one of them – Auwal.
Olufunke was shot dead on July 12 2019 while traveling between Kajola and Ore, along the Ondo/Ore Highway.
The Ondo state government had in April 2020 arraigned them at a Chief Magistrate Court sitting in Akure.
The development came one week after police operatives announced their arrest.
According to then-then-Force Public Relations Officer, Frank Mba, they were arrested after the police established enough physical and forensic evidence linking them to her death.
Reacting to the sentencing shortly after the verdict, counsel to the three defendants said he will study the judgment to see if an appeal could be filed, while the attorney general and commissioner for justice in Ondo State, Charles Titiloye, commended the judgment.
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