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long time after she was lured to Lagos and killed by some men in the
commercial city, Cynthia Osokogu's murderers have been found guilty.
Cynthia Osokogu
A Lagos State High Court in Igbosere on Thursday found Ezekiel
Eloka and Echezona Nwabufor guilty of the murder of a postgraduate
student, Cynthia Osokogu, who they lured from Nasarawa to Lagos before
strangling her to death at a hotel in Festac Town, Lagos, in 2012.
Premium Times reports that Justice Olabisi Akinlade declared that
after carefully analysing the evidence presented before the court,
testimonies of prosecution witnesses, and confessional statements the
deceased made to the police, she was left with no doubt that the accused
killed Ms. Osokogu.
She also found them guilty of the second charge of committing
felony by stealing her Blackberry phone saying the prosecution has
proved beyond reasonable doubt that the accused intended and in fact
took the life of the deceased in the process of stealing her phone and
belongings.
She also found the duo guilty of the first and third charge – conspiracy to commit murder and conspiracy to steal.
Ms. Osokogu who met Mr. Eloka on Facebook was lured to Lagos and
murdered on July 22, 2012, at Cosmilla Hotel, Lakeview Estate, Festac
Town.
Orji Osita, a pharmacist, was discharged of the charge of
recklessness and negligence for selling prescription drugs without
prescription which the accused used in drugging the deceased.
The court is still in session.
More details will be provided later.