Aluu4 trial stalls due to prison officials failure to produce suspects
The 13 people arrested for the October
5th murder of four students of
the University of Port Harcourt were meant to appear in court yesterday
Thursday December 20th but the trial was stalled due to the failure of
prison officials to produce them in
court.
At
the resumed hearing yesterday morning, the
prosecutor told the court that the accused
persons were in the court cell, but could not be brought in because of
shortage of prison personnel. Yes, they actually said that! Shortage of
prison personnel? Does that even make sense? The prosecutor also said he was yet to receive any advice on
the matter from the Director of Public prosecution to whom the case file
was referred.
The case was then adjourned till February 28, 2013. The suspects were remanded in prison.
Meanwhile
the police has arraigned three more persons for the brutal killing of
Tekena, Iloyd, Ugonna and Chiadika. They are: Finebone Jeffrey (23),
Joshua Ekpe (27), and Abang Cyril (27), all arraigned on a five-count charge of conspiracy and murder
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