A High Court sitting in Jigawa, Tuesday, sentenced one Jamilu Harisu to death by hanging after he was found guilty of killing his father, a statement from the state Ministry of Justice, has disclosed.
According to statement, the convicted, one Mr Harisu Bako, on July 22, 2019 attacked his father, Harisu Bako, 70, while working on his farm and killed him.
The convict injured his father on his head with a hoe and the injury led to his death, the statement said.
The statement added that the prosecution team led by the Jigawa state Attorney General, Musa Aliyu, presented four witnesses to the court and also tendered a confessional statement and a medical report.
The defendant, on the other hand, did not call any witness. At the end of the trial, the court found him guilty of committing culpable homicide, the statement noted.
The presiding judge, Hon. Justice Ahmed Kazaure, ruled that the prosecution counsels had proven their case beyond reasonable doubt and thus sentenced Mr Harisu to death by hanging.
He stated further that the the offence contravened Section 221(b) of the Jigawa State Penal Code Law.
In a related development, Justice Kazaure also sentenced Mustapha Idris of Daneji village in Ringim local government area of Jigawa to death also by hanging.
The statement said Mr Idris had on January 12, 2020 at the outskirts of Daneji village, stabbed one Nafisa Hashimu to death.
The spokesperson for the ministry, Zainab Baba-Santali, said the judgment was reached after the prosecution counsel called four witnesses and tendered two documents.
She, however, said the defendant denied the charges, saying he was in Abuja when the incident happened.
“The learned trial judge, Justice Kazaure, ruled that the prosecution counsel had proven its case beyond reasonable doubt. He declared that Mr Idris had committed premeditated homicide and sentenced him to death under Section 221(a) of the Jigawa State Penal Code Law,” Baba-Santali said.
