The 22-year-old David Idah, who beheaded a magistrate in Ogun State in 2014, was, on Wednesday, sentenced to death by hanging by Ogun State High Court sitting in Abeokuta.
Idah beheaded his boss, Mrs. Olufunmilayo Timeyin, a retired chief magistrate, at her Laderin Estate residence in the state.
The convict was charge on a count of unlawful killing before an Abeokuta Chief Magistrates’ Court on April 4, 2014.
The offence contravened sections 316 and 319 of the Criminal Code Laws of Ogun State, 2006.
The convict was said to have scaled the fence of the house to attack the retired senior magistrate with a machete, hacking her to death.
To avoid being caught, Idah escaped into the bush behind the house of his employer, but was apprehended following an alarm raised by one of the children of the retired magistrate.
Idah, who worked for the Timeyins for two months before perpetrating the act, was said to have been a week earlier before the attack arrested and detained by the police for allegedly burgling into the residence of his employers, stealing household items, jewellery, electronics and mobile phones.
He was arrested while trying to sell the stolen items at Oke-Ilewo area of the town.
The late chief magistrate was said to have pleaded with the police to release him who was only let off the hook four days before he carried out the crime.
