Man gets death sentence for killing three-year-old girl in Kano

After seven years of trial, Justice Maryam Sabo of a Kano Sigh High Court docket has sentenced one Aminu Muhammad to loss of life by striking for the gruesome ruin of a three-yr-primitive girl.

The victim, Rafi’atu Junaidu, became once murdered in 2018 after Mohammad lured her to Jibga village in Bebeji Native Govt Field.

Turning in the Judgment on Wednesday, Justice Sabo found Mohammad guilty as charged and convicted him, bringing to a end a prolonged simply battle.

The prosecuting counsel, Barrister Badawiyya Shehu Bala, presented three witnesses whose testimonies, alongside with the investigation’s findings, convinced the court docket that the defendant became once guilty beyond an much less dear doubt.

In step with court docket records, Mohammad lured the little Rafi’atu from her house to a nearby farm, the keep he strangled her to loss of life. In a further act of excessive violence, it became once reported that Muhammad earlier a damaged bottle to slash open her stomach and eradicated her intestines.

Disturbing revelations also emerged in some unspecified time in the future of the proceedings that Mohammad allegedly promised N400,000 to an unidentified particular individual to attain the killing.

Nevertheless, the identification of the supposed instigator stays unknown, and investigations into the claim are ongoing.

Describing the act as “inhuman and brutal,” Justice Sabo emphasised in her ruling that the sentence could possibly perchance possibly restful help as a deterrent to others, underscoring the court docket’s dedication to making obvious justice, severely in cases inviting the ruin of minors.

“The court docket finds the accused guilty as charged and hereby sentences him to loss of life by striking,” she declared.