One Joseph Udoh has been sentenced to death by hanging by a Rivers High Court sitting in Port Harcourt for the killing of an ex-banker, Pascal Nnorum.
Nnorum was killed by Udoh on May 13, 2017, during a traffic altercation along MTN link road-Aba road in Obio/Akpor Local Government Area of the state.
The deceased, out of provocation, stopped his car and held down the car steering of the defendant to show his grievance but Udoh dragged the deceased with his car on the ground for several meters and smashed him on a culvert, killing him on the process.
Justice Chinwendu Nworgu, who delivered the judgement, ruled that the prosecution proved its case beyond a reasonable doubt that the defendant killed the deceased and found him guilty as charged.
The judge then convicted and sentenced the defendant to death by hanging.
