Justice Adekunle Adeleye of the Ekiti State High Court has sentenced Sunday Aernana, Jonathan Elijah, Sule Obasanjo, and Moses Iorna to death by hanging for the murder of Chief Sola Fatunla of Ikole Ekiti.
According to Daily Post, the court sentenced them for the attempted murder of Tadeni Adebo.
One of the convicts, Aernana, had falsely accused the deceased of having illicit affair with his wife.
He thereafter lured the deceased and the lady to a farm settlement at Iyemero in April 2020 under the pretence that he wanted them to beg an lbira man who was disturbing him where he was hewing charcoal.
On getting to the farm, the three other convicts descended on the two of them by beating them to a pulp and tied them to different trees at a distance of 300 metres.
They were said to have broken a bottle on the head of the deceased and after he was soaked with blood, poured petrol on him and set him ablaze.
Meanwhile, the lady, Adebo Tadeni, by providence, escaped from where she was tied to a tree.
The Director of Public Prosecutions, Julius Ajibare, who prosecuted the case for the State, called six witnesses to prove the case beyond a reasonable doubt.
