Court Sentences Man To 104 Years In Prison, See Why

Kano High Court judge led by Justice Zuwaira Yusuf has sentenced Paul Owne to 104 years imprisonment, for stealing and selling children in Anambra State.

AllNews Nigeria gathered that Paul Owne is the mastermind of the Kano missing 9 children

Passing the judgment on Friday, Justice Zuwaira Yusuf, sentenced Paul to 104 years in addition to the fine of the sum of N100,000 for conspiring among 6 other accomplices to kidnap many children who were under 10 years from kano and sold them at Onitsha in Anambra State.

Justice Zuwaira sentenced the convict after he pleaded guilty to all the 38 count charges slammed against him by the Kano State Government.

Delivering the judgment, Justice Yusuf categorized the offenses into three and at the end slammed the sentence on him.

In the first category, the court upheld that the convict was found guilty of counts 2, 8, 9, 27, and 34. She convicted him for 7 years each without the option of a fine in addition to the payment of the sum of N100,000.

Similarly, the court found Paul guilty of counts 3, 5, 10, 11, 22, 28, and 38, and was sentenced to 7 years in prison.

While in the last category, Justice Yusuf said the action of Paul was in contravention of counts 4, 12, 13, 29, and 38. She, therefore, convicted him to 4 years in prison for each count without the option of a fine.

She ordered that all the counts run conservatively.

The convicted person was arraigned before the court alongside his 5 other defendants who pleaded not guilty to all the charges read to them. They are Ogbono, Emanuel Igwe, Loise Duru, Monica Oracha, Chinelo Ifedigwe.