A Lagos High Court, Igbosere, was told yesterday that Cynthia Osokogu killers had planned her murder a couple of days before the incident and it wasn't an accident.The prosecution witness, Joseph Edo explained How Olisaeloka Ezike (second defendant) went to Agboju Market for Okumo Nwabufo (first defendant) and purchased chain and celotape, which they used in ‘killing’ Cynthia.
State Attorney General, Ade Ipaye, Edo told the court:that “it is the defendants’ stock-in-trade to invite women to hotels, drug and rape them”.
“From my investigation, I discovered that the first defendant sent the second defendant to Agboju Market to buy the instruments they used for the operation-Chain and Celotape- few days before Cynthia was killed.
“The second defendant (Ezike) after getting the items and while still at the market, used his phone to snap them and forwarded the picture to the first defendant (Nwabufo).
“He equally sent Nwabufo a text message from his phone asking if “this was the chain and celotape you asked me to buy?”. “Nwabufo replied Ezike that it will be okay for the job.
The messages are all in their phones,” Edo said. Continuing, the witness told the court that he also discovered that the third defendant, Orji Osita, who is a pharmacist, aided the primary suspects to commit the crime by supplying them the Rohypnol used in subduing the deceased before they carried out the killing.
He said the fourth defendant, Nonso Ezike dishonestly received Cynthia’s Blackberry phone from his elder brother who is the second defendant.
“It was discovered that it was not the first phone he (Nonso) bought from the second defendant and he has knowledge of the first and second defendants stock-in-trade.
“They specialise in bringing in ladies into hotel room, enticing them with one or two things and then rape them,” Edo said.
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