A Cross River State High Court, on Wednesday, sentenced a middle-aged man, Ayanime Udo, to death by hanging for killing his 11-year-old twin alleging that they were witches.
Justice Agnes Onyebueke, who death sentence, described Udo’s act as not only barbaric but “satanic, demonic, and beyond human comprehension.’’
She held that the prosecution had proven its case beyond every reasonable doubt, adding that Udo “willfully and gruesomely murdered his 11-year-old twin, Mfoniso Anyanime and Emediong Anyanime in 2017, after dubbing them witches.”
The convict, who was cross-examined by the State counsel, confessed that he gave the girls a malt drink mixed with acid from his motorcycle.
“One of the girls reportedly died on the spot on January 10, 2017, while the second crawled to the road where a Good Samaritan picked and took her to the hospital but she died the next day,” a Child Rights Activist, James Ibor, told the court.