An Ikeja Special Offences Court on Tuesday, September 21, sentenced a 23-year-old chef, Joshua Usulor, to 28 years’ imprisonment for k*lling a 34-year-old lawyer, Mrs Feyisayo Obot.
The chef k*lled the Abuja-based mother of two on January 26, 2019, at an hotel in Lagos, where both of them lodged in different rooms. He had broke into her room, sl*t her throat and robbed her, in order to offset his outstanding hotel bills.
Obot, an employee of an Abuja-based non-governmental organisation – Save the Children – was in Lagos to write a project management examination. She was k*lled on the day she was due to check out of the hotel.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Justice Oluwatoyin Taiwo sentenced Usulor after he approached the Lagos State Directorate of Public Prosecution (DPP) for a plea bargain agreement in which he would plead guilty to the crime.
While sentencing Usulor, Taiwo asked why he k*lled the lawyer. Responding he said, “It was a mistake, I didn’t know what got into me.”
