Tricycle ticket seller sentenced to death for armed robbery in Akwa Ibom

An Akwa Ibom State High Court sitting in Ikot Ekpene has sentenced a tricycle ticket seller, Iboro Sunday Akpan, to death by hanging for armed robbery.
Akpan was also sentenced to life imprisonment for attempted murder.
Delivering judgment in Charge No. HT/25C/2025, Justice Augustine D. Odokwo held that the prosecution proved its case beyond reasonable doubt and convicted the defendant on all the three counts.
The court subsequently sentenced Akpan to 14 years imprisonment for conspiracy, life imprisonment for attempted murder and death by hanging for armed robbery, with the custodial sentences subsumed by the capital punishment.
Akpan, a native of Ikot Idaha in Ikono Local Govern...