A High Court in Akwa Ibom has sentenced a man to death by hanging for killing his father after a quarrel over bush meat.
Justice Edem Akpan presiding over the Akwa Ibom High Court, Itu judicial division, had heard how one Utibe Daniel Etim hacked his father, Daniel Etim, to death with an axe following a disagreement over a portion of bush rabbit was given to him.
Etim, a bone specialist, who sustained injuries in the head after his son hit him with an axe was said to have died in an undisclosed hospital in Uyo.
Utibe was arrested and arraigned on a one-count charge of murder on a suit No. HIT/21c/2016.
Five witnesses, including the pathologist who performed the autopsy on the deceased, were called and they testified on the culpability of the suspect on the matter.
Utibe, while he was in the police custody, admitted that he struck his father’s head with an axe.
Delivering the judgment, Justice Akpan said “The sentence of the court upon you, Utibe Daniel Etim, is that you be hanged by the neck until you be dead; and may the Lord have mercy upon your soul.”
