A 34-year-old dismissed soldier, Sunday Umaru, has been sentenced to death by hanging by a Plateau State High Court for hacking his girlfriend, Charity Thomas, to death following his suspicion that she was cheating on him. At the sentencing which held yesterday January 23rd, the prosecutor, Emmanuel Awe, told the court that Umaru, a married man, was a Private in the Nigerian Army and was serving with the Special Task Force, Sector 7, Barkin Ladi, when he murdered Thomas in January 2016. According to Awe, Charity who lived in Kaduna state, visited Umaru in Plateau state and while she was there, Umaru searched her phone and found a text message with a love intonation from a man. In anger, he stabbed Charity with a knife in the stomach, slaughtered her body and then dumped it by the roadside. At his arraignment, Umaru faced a count of culpable homicide. He was accused of killing his lover, Charity, who visited him from Kaduna, by stabbing her with a knife in the stomach, sl...
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