Metro/Crime
Court jails 3 for gang-raping cousin
Three male students of a tertiary institution in Kwara state were on Monday convicted by a state High Court for conspiring to gang-rape a cousin of one of them.
The court presided over by Justice Adenike Akinpelu, found them guilty on a two-count charge of criminal conspiracy and rape of the victim (name withheld) in Adangba area of Ilorin, the Kwara state capital.
The convicts, Omotosho Yahaya, 23, who is the cousin of the victim, Mustapha Ahmed, 23 and 22-year-old Mustapha Ridwan, are students of a tertiary institution in the state.
The first defendant (Omotosho) was said to have invited his two friends to join him in the act while he was with the victim in the room.
They were sentenced to five years imprisonment for rape and two years for criminal conspiracy.
The sentences, which include an additional N50,000 fine, are to run concurrently.
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