Court orders 24-yr-old man to die by hanging for clubbing his mother to death

A 24-year-old man identified as Godwin Banchir will by now be greatly regretting his evil deed after a High Court sitting in Plateau State ordered his death by handing for beating his 65-year-old mother to death.

The convict was thus sentenced after Justice Daniel Longji found him guilty of killing his mother in cold blood for no just cause.

While pronouncing the judgement, Justice Longji said: “Going by the findings of this court, you, Godwin Banchir, mercilessly took the life of your mother, Mrs Saratu Banchir, in cold blood.

“This sentence is mandatory, as the law states that any person convicted of murder shall be punished with death by hanging.

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“The sentence of this court upon you is that you, Godwin Banchir, will be hanged until you are dead. May God have mercy on your soul.”

The convict in his confessional statement said his mother infuriated him when he greeted her on his return home but she refused to respond to him.

Banchir said; “I got angry when she did not respond to my greetings, so I picked up the handle of an axe and hit her around the ribs.

“She fell down and started shouting, which attracted our neighbours, who came to beat me up and later took me to the police station.

“I’ve been having misunderstandings with my mother. Each time I returned from the farm, she would not cook for me on time, and she always quarreled with me whenever I wanted to bathe with the water she fetched from the stream.

“Her actions always annoyed me. I did not know that she was going to die from the beating she received from me.”

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