{"id":92209,"date":"2022-02-25T13:57:07","date_gmt":"2022-02-25T12:57:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=92209"},"modified":"2022-02-25T13:57:07","modified_gmt":"2022-02-25T12:57:07","slug":"breaking-court-convicts-evans-two-others-of-kidnapping","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/breaking-court-convicts-evans-two-others-of-kidnapping\/","title":{"rendered":"BREAKING: Court convicts Evans, two others of kidnapping"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"auto\">It was judgement day for Chukwudimeme Onwuamadike (alias Evans) on Friday as an Ikeja High Court, Lagos, presided over by Justice Hakeem Oshodi, convicted him and two others on the charge of kidnapping.<\/p>\n<p>Justice Hakeem Oshodi convicted Evans and the two others for conspiracy and kidnapping of a businessman, Donatus D\u00f9ru.<\/p>\n<p>Justice Oshodi found Evans and others guilty of a two-count charge of kidnapping the Managing Director of Maydon Pharmaceuticals Limited, Donatus Dunu.<\/p><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Others convicted alongside Evans are Uche Amadi and Okwuchukwu Nwachukwu.<\/p>\n<p>The judge held that the prosecution had succeeded in proving the charge against the three convicts beyond a reasonable doubt.<\/p>\n<p>He concluded that the evidence tendered before the court especially the videos evidence collaborated the guilty of the convicts<\/p>\n<p>Justice Oshodi however discharged and acquitted Ogechi Uchechukw and two former soldiers Chilaka Ifeanyi and Victor Aduba for lack of sufficient evidence linking them to the crime.<\/p>\n<div class=\"yj6qo\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"adL\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was judgement day for Chukwudimeme Onwuamadike (alias Evans) on Friday as an Ikeja High Court, Lagos, presided over by Justice Hakeem Oshodi, convicted him and two others on the&hellip;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":92210,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-exclusive"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - 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