Tricycle ticket seller sentenced to d3ath for attempted m8rder in Akwa Ibom

A tricycle (Keke) ticket seller, Iboro Sunday Akpan, has been sentenced to d3ath by hanging for armed robbery and life imprisonment for attempted m8rder.The Akwa Ibom State High Court sitting in Ikot Ekpene sentenced the accused to d3ath on the basis that the prosecution proved its case beyond reasonable doubt and convicted the defendant on all the three counts.In his judgement, Justice Augustine D. Odokwo sentenced Akpan to 14 years imprisonment for conspiracy, life imprisonment for attempted m8rder and d3ath by hanging for armed robbery, with the custodial sentences subsumed by the capital punishment.According to Charge No. HT/25C/2025, Akpan, an indigene of Ikot Idaha in Ikono Local Go...