Court sentences man to death by hanging for killing 3 family members

The Kano State High Court, on Tuesday, April 22, 2025, sentenced a man, Salisu Idris, to death by hanging for killing three family members.

Idris was charged with abetment and culpable homicide.

Delivering  judgement, Justice Amina Adamu-Aliyu held that the prosecution proved its case beyond reasonable doubt.

“I hereby sentence Idris to death by hanging for burning the victims alive,” the judge said

Earlier, the prosecution counsel, Lamido Abba-Sorondinki, told the court that Idris committed the offence at Gayawa Quarters in Kano on September 25, 2019.

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Abba-Sorondinki said Idris and one Aliyu Abdullahi-Anas, who is now at large, went to the house of 50-year-oldAminu Bala and set it on fire, causing the death of the man, his wife, and a two-year-old child.

The prosecution presented two witnesses and the confessional statement of Idris.

The convict, however, denied committing the offence.

The prosecutor said the offence contravened the provisions of Sections 85 and 221 of the Penal Code.

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