Tag Archives: SENTENCED

  A Children, Sexual and Gender-Based Violence Court, sitting in Awka, Anambra State, has sentenced a 42-year-old woman, Victoria Enwerem (Anosike) to multiple jail terms for stealing five children in Onitsha. Enwerem was arraigned in Court on a-3 count charge: conspiracy to steal children; fraudulently enticing away and harbouring children, …

A Kenyan man accused of selling potato chips fried with transformer oil was sentenced to two years in prison or pay a fine of Ksh.200,000 (around $1,500). According to Citizen Digital, authorities found 11 liters of transformer oil in Elijah Mwangi Muthoga’s possession when he was arrested in December 2021. …

  An administrative police officer who shot and killed his girlfriend in Navakholo, Kakamega county, Kenya, was sentenced to life imprisonment by a Kakamega court on Thursday, February 23, 2023. The officer, Patrick Nyapara, shot 26-year-old, Christine Maonga, several times after a domestic quarrel in 2019. He allegedly suspected her …

A Non-Governmental Organization, Brave Heart Initiative has secured a court victory against a man who raped an 8-year-old girl in Akoko-Edo Local Government Area of Edo State.   The NGO, in a statement on Sunday, February 12, 2023, said the convict, Frederick Agbozuadu was found guilty and sentenced to five …

A Nicaraguan court sentenced Catholic Bishop Rolando Alvarez to more than 26 years in prison on Friday, a day after the cleric and critic of President Daniel Ortega turned down an offer to be sent to the United States as part of a prisoner release. Alvarez was found guilty of …

An Ekiti State High Court sitting in Ado Ekiti Division, has sentenced two men to life imprisonment for raping a 14-year-old girl. The convicts, Salau Adams (21) and Odeleye Tobi (21), were arraigned on May 13, 2022, on one count of rape. The charge read, ?The defendants on February 28, …

The High Court in Cape Coast has sentenced Bright Ellis, the man accused of killing Cape Coast-based dancehall artiste Unruly Grank, to death. The court, presided over by Justice Emmanuel Lodoh, sentenced the accused person to death by hanging. Reacting to the court’s decision, the mother of the deceased dancehall …

Justice Aisha Mahmud of a Kano State High Court sitting at Audu Bako Secretariat has sentenced one Sagiru Wada to death by hanging for killing his stepmother, Zainab Dan-Azumi.   The suspect was arrested eight years ago after using a sword to cut his stepmother into pieces.   Delivering judgement …

A 32-year-old man, James Kifo Muriuki, was sentenced to 50 prison terms for dehumanizing his wife by sealing her genitals with sand and superglue. The man was convicted and sentenced to 50 years’ imprisonment for abusing his wife and seriously injuring her before Chief Major Njoki Kahara of the Chuka …

Court records show that Iyanna Mayweather, who is 22 years old, admitted to stabbing Jazlyn Mychelle. Iyanna Mayweather, daughter of former boxer Floyd Mayweather Jr., avoided prison by pleading guilty to stabbing a woman at the home of her boyfriend at the time, rapper YoungBoy, in 2020. The oldest daughter …