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Hotel staff sentenced to death by hanging in Lagos for killing manager and owner

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Hotel staff sentenced to death by hanging in Lagos for killing manager and owner

An Ikeja High Court has sentenced a 30-year-old hotel worker, Jeffrey Ehizojie, to death by hanging for strangling his employer, Olusola Olusoga, and the hotel manager, Tunji Omikunle, to death in Lagos.

Delivering judgment on Tuesday, July 11, 2023, Justice Oyindamola Ogala, held that the prosecution has proved its case beyond reasonable doubts.

Jeffrey Ehizojie | Photo credit: NPF on Twitter

Mrs. Ogala found Ehizojie guilty of beating and strangling the Managing Director of Etsahol Hotel and Suites located at Ojodu-Berger, Lagos.

She said the crux of the case of the prosecution was premised on the confessional statement of the convict as well as circumstantial evidence.