“My lord, he is a first time offender, he is a family man with wife and children and also the breadwinner of his family.”
, to 15 years imprisonment for raping his tenant’s 14-year-old niece, name withheld. The judge sentenced him to 15 years imprisonment without an option of fine.
However, at the resumed hearing of the matter yesterday, after the state prosecution counsel, Mr. Babatunde Sunmonu, and the defendant counsel, Dr. Victor Olowonla, announced their appearances, the judgment was delivered. The convict was arraigned sometime in January 2016 at the Magistrates’ Court on a four-count charge bordering on defilement by the Lagos State government for rape. He was thereafter remanded in Kirikiri correctional centre pending legal advice from the Director of Public Prosecutions before the case was transferred to the high court for trial.
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