Crime: Evans’ Lawyers Wants Court to Probe Death of Three Witnesses in Police Custody

Evans’ Lawyers Wants Court to Probe Death of three Witnesses in Police Custody

Lawyers to the convicted kidnap Kingpin, Chukwudumeme Onwuamadike (alias Evans)  the day gone by instructed the Special Offences Court, sitting in Ikeja, lagos kingdom  that the 3 witnesses, who have been status trial with Evans, died in police custody and that no post-mortem become achieved to expose the situations surrounding their demise.

At a resumed listening to on Friday, the defendant’s recommend, Chuks Muoma (SAN) and Emmanuel Ochai requested the courtroom docket to reserve an inquiry into the demise of 3 witnesses in police custody at some point of the trial of the kidnap kingpin. They submitted that the reality that they died in custody while they have been hale and hearty while the police arrested them increases critical questions on the confessional statements received from the chief of the gang.
The  protection suggest in addition submitted that the prosecution has failed in numerous regions to show the case towards Evans and his colleague past affordable doubt and advised the courtroom docket to discharge and acquit them.

In his submission, the kingdom prosecution suggest, Mr. Yusuf Sule, but, prayed that the primary and 2nd defendants be convicted. He stated that a defendant wanted now no longer to be visible on the scene of the crime to be convicted, stressing that aleven though the confession of 1 character couldn’t be used towards any other man or woman, there have been exemptions in which the nexus correlate and are interwoven, quoting a Supreme Court justice.
Evans and Aduba, an ex-soldier, are on trial for the kidnap and call for of ransom from businessman Sylvanus Ahamonu, for which they allegedly received $420,000. They are charged with 4 counts of kidnapping and unlawful gun possession.

This isn’t the primary time allegation of torture and extra-judicial execution towards the police is developing at some point of the trial.  While giving proof all through the trial on October 26, 2018,  Evans narrated his enjoy withinside the custody of the Police Intelligence Response Unit(IRT) headed with the aid of using the suspended DCP Abbah Kyari:
“They took me to the outside of the IG’s visitor house. In the outdoor, I noticed a few humans that I become paraded with; they have been sporting leg chains. Some of them had bullet wounds on their legs and Phillip ordered Haruna to convey a huge brown cellotape, handkerchief, and poly bags.
“Haruna pressured a handkerchief into the mouth of certainly considered one among them; he used the cellotape to tightly tape his mouth and face and placed a poly bag over his head and cellotaped it, and used every other poly bag and cellotaped it for the second one time, and that they left the person at the floor. The guy at the floor turned into shaking; he pissed (urinated) on his frame, he poo-pooed (defecated) on his frame, and, after a while, he went quiet. Haruna went to the person and stepped on his frame and he changed into unresponsive and he advised me ‘are you able to see I even have traveled him,’ and he requested if I knew the technique of killing and I stated no; they stated that it’s far called ‘Saddam Hussein’”

The trial decide Justice Oluwatoyin  Taiwo but constant September 19, 2022, because the date for judgment after paying attention to the submissions and arguments of the recommend withinside the suit.