Justice has finally been served on a maid – Dominion Okoro – who in December last year killed Madam Maria Oredola Igbinedion, mother of the former Governor of Edo State, Lucky Igbinedion.
An Edo State High Court, on Monday, sentenced Dominion to death by hanging for the murder.
The 25-year-old lady, on December 1 last year, hit the elderly woman with a stool, and stole her N100,000 (One Hundred Thousand Naira).
She committed the crime at her Madam’s residence in Ugbor community, Oredo Local Government Area of Edo State.
The trial Judge, Justice Efe Ikponmwonba, who gave the verdict on Monday, held that Dominion, after the killing, also used cotton wool to stoke the nose of the deceased and thereafter, called a cab man to escape from the house early the following morning.
She confessed to the police that she bought Indian hemp, which she used in preparing a meal for her boss, in order to weaken and kill her without a struggle, according to the court.
The judge, therefore, held that with the evidence of the pathologist on the cause of death, evidence of other prosecution witnesses, in addition to the convict’s confessional statement, it was safe for the court to send the convict to the gallows.
In the case of Patience Okoro, elder sister of the convict in the case, the court noted that the only evidence linking her with the case was that Dominion called her to inform her after committing the crime.
Patience was discharged and acquitted of the charge of offence of accessory after murder, accordingly.