Two Tamale university students sentenced to death for murdering pastor

The two students of the Tamale Technical University (TaTU) who murdered the head Pastor of the End Time Believers Bible Fellowship in Tamale have been sentenced to death by the Tamale High Court.

The convicts, Kwame Dogyi and Obio Akwasi who are cousins murdered 64-year-old Pastor Ebenezer Ocran at his residence at Kumboyili, near Tamale on November 9, 2017.

They took away his Toyota Highlander vehicle which Dogyi gave to a sprayer at the Tamale Industrial area to sell at GH¢10,000. 

The Tamale High Court presided over by Mr Justice Edward Apenkwah sentenced the two to death by hanging.

This was after the jury returned a unanimous verdict of guilty of conspiracy to commit crime  and murder.

The hearing of the case at the High Court presided over by Mr. Justice Edward Apenkwa began on Tuesday April 17, 2018 until they were finally sentenced yesterday, July 30,2018.

The facts of the case as presented in court by the prosecutor, A Principal State Attorney, Mr. Salia Abdul Quddus were that, on  November 9, 2017, the two convicts attacked Pastor Ocran at Kumbuyili at about 11 o'clock in the morning.

They stabbed him in the chest with a knife and later hit his head with a pestle killing him instantly. 

The prosecution said, the two after the act took away a Samsung Galaxy phone, an amount of GH₵200 and drove away a Toyota Highlander vehicle with registration number GN 1763-14 belonging to the deceased.

SOURCE: GNA
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