The Lagos High Court in Ikeja has sentence kidnap kingpin, Chukwudumeme Onwuamadike popularly known as Evans to life Imprisonment on a two-count of conspiracy and kidnapping of a businessman, Donatus Duru.
The judge held that the prosecution had successfully proved the charge against the three convicts beyond a reasonable doubt.
In reaching his verdict on Evans, the judge held that he observed the demeanour of the witness, stating that in some of the confessional videos played in court, Evans had mentioned some of the other defendants and the roles they played in the crime.
He concluded that the evidence tendered before the court especially their video confessions corroborated their guilt.
The court however discharged and acquitted Ogechi Uchechukwu and two former soldiers of the Nigerian Army, Chilaka Ifeanyi and Victor Aduba for lack of sufficient evidence linking them to the crime.
The Lagos State government had arraigned Evans alongside Uche Amadi, Okwuchukwu Nwachukwu, Ogechi Uchechukwu, Chilaka Ifeanyi, and Victor Aduba for allegedly kidnapping the Managing Director of Maydon Pharmaceuticals Limited, Donatus Dunu February 14, 2017.
