Thursday 30 January 2014

Policeman Who Killed Young Boy In Front Of Mother - Judgement Finally Delivered

Justice has finally come the way of the family of slain Emmanuel Victor, a 20-year-old man who was killed in front of his mother by a trigger-happy policeman, Mathew Egheghe, two years ago in Yenogoa, Bayelsa state.
Photo: Emmanuel Victor's killer sentenced to death
Victor was shot dead after he confronted a group of policemen who were trying to extort money from motorists as he was coming back from church.
Angered by his effrontery to question their action, policeman Egheghe moved close to Victor and shot him at close range.
Narrating what happened, Victor's mother Grace, who witnessed the incident said:
"They shot my son brutally. As he fell while they were shooting him, the tallest of them still continued shooting him on the ground".
She said she was harassed and stopped from going close to her dying son even as he lay gasping for life in the pool of his own blood.
Delivering his judgement on the case, Justice Lucky Boufili said that such a cruel act was only punishable by the maximum penalty which is death. He sentenced Mathew Egheghe to death by hanging.

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