Cynthia Osokogu: 2 sentenced to death over Facebook friend murder
Killers of Cynthia Osokogu have been sentenced to death by hanging.
The postgraduate student was, in 2012, lured and killed by Facebook friends. They lured her from Nasawara to Lagos before strangling her to death at a hotel in Festac Town.
A Lagos State High Court in Igbosere on Thursday found Ezekiel Eloka and Echezona Nwabufor guilty of the murder.
Justice Olabisi Akinlade reached the decision after analysing the evidence presented before the court, testimonies of prosecution witnesses, and confessional statements the deceased made to the police.
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.
Osokogu met Eloka, one of her killers, on Facebook.
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.
