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| Funsho Willaims |
A Lagos State High Court sitting in
Igbosere, on Monday, discharged and acquitted the six suspects standing
trial for the murder of a late Lagos politician, Funsho Williams.
In setting the six men free, Justice
Ebenezer Adebajo ruled that the prosecution failed to establish any
nexus between Williams’ death and acts of any of the six.
The judge said that the evidences given by the prosecution witnesses were weak, superficial and at best speculative.
“I agree with the defendants’ counsel
that the evidence given in respect of the offence of conspiracy to
commit murder is weak and unreliable because they are superficial, they
amount to speculation when given consideration. There is nothing cogent
and compelling to show that any combination of the defendants has acted
in furtherance of a crime,” the judge held.
He also ruled that there were
insufficient materials to infer that the six defendants conspired to
murder and actually murdered the late Williams.
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