In what can best be described as the end of the road, the Supreme Court on Friday affirmed the conviction and death sentence handed to the General Overseer of Lagos-based Christian Praying Assembly, Chukwuemeka Ezeugo a.k.a Reverend King.King was first convicted and sentenced to death on charges of attempted murder and murder by the High Court of Lagos State on January 11, 2007.
He was found guilty of setting ablaze six members of his church in 2006, one of who died later from injuries she sustained in from being set ablaze by Rev. King.
Dissatisfied with the ruling, the disgraced cleric filed an appeal at the Lagos Division of the Court of Appeal.
On February 1, 2013 the appellate court upheld the judgment of the lower court sentencing Rev. King to death by hanging.
Reading the lead judgment of the unanimous decision of a five-man bench of the Supreme Court, Justice Sylvester Ngwutan noted that facts in the case was akin to what could only be found in horror movies.
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