A 39-year old labourer, Mohammed Ibrahim, has been sentenced to death by hanging by Justice Ayokunle Rotimi-Balogun of a High Court sitting in Abeokuta, Ogun state, for killing a two-year-old baby and also found him guilty of attempting to kill the mother, Rabi Yakubu.
The Prosecuting counsel, Oluwabumi Akinola, had told the court that Mohammed committed the offence on April 12, 2014, at Ofada town, Owode Egba in Abeokuta. Akinola said the labourer had followed Mrs Yakubu, who had her two-year-old son strapped to her back, as she wanted to ease herself. On getting into the bush she dropped her baby on the ground for her to defecate, when Ibrahim attacked her with a knife, attempting to cut off her neck. She struggled with Ibrahim and escaped to call for help without carrying her son. When Ibrahim realised he did not succeed in cutting off her head which he needed for sale, he then cut off her son's head. The convict had negotiated with a woman at Ibadan in Ibode market, who was ready to pay him N120,000 for a human head.
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