BY TIMOTHY AGBOR
A Rivers State High Court in Port Harcourt has sentenced the General Overseer, Altar of Solution and Healing Assembly in Oyigbo Local Government Area, Chidiebere Okoroafor, to death for killing three persons including his choir mistress who he impregnated.
Justice S. O Benson in his judgment in the murder trial delivered on Monday said the evidence and confessional statement by Okoroafor proved he murdered his Church’s choir mistress after getting her pregnant and also killed her friend, Chigozie Ezenwa with her daughter, Christabel Ezenwa.
Justice Benson insisted that the prosecution proved the case of murder against Okoroafor, ordering that the cleric be killed by hanging on his neck until he is dead or be injected with a lethal injection which also kills faster.
Men of the Rivers State Police Command had on December 17, 2018 arrested Okoroafor following an alarm raised by the husband to the late Chigozie Ezenwa over the killing of three victims on December 11, 2018 in two different locations in a community in Oyigbo.
Precious Ordu, prosecution counsel from the state Ministry of Justice, and Antonia Osademe, representing the International Federation of Female Lawyers in the murder trial expressed happiness over the judgment they described as justice well served.
Innocent Ekwu, counsel to the convicted Pastor said there were reasonable grounds to appeal the judgment against his client.
