Akwa Ibom State High Court on Thursday sentenced Mr Uduak Akpan to death for killing an Akwa Ibom job seeker, Iniobong Umoren.
The verdict was delivered by the trial judge, Justice Bassey Nkanang, on Thursday.
He ruled that the convict should die by hanging.
Justice Nkanang said, “The defendant, Uduak Frank, Akpan confessed that “I first used condom to have sex with Iniubong Umoren and later removed the condom because I did not enjoy the sex.
“She became infuriated and I reached out to a stabilizer and a box iron and used it to hit her abdominal part and started to bleed. I hit her again and she screamed. I used her jeans and strangled her and she became lifeless.”
Mr Akpan attempted to escape shortly after the sentence.
However, it took the intervention of the police to foil the attempted escape.
The convict was sentenced to death by hanging and life imprisonment in the two charge of murder and rape preferred against him.
The court discharged and acquitted his father, Frank Akpan and sister, Anwan Bassey (2nd and 3rd accused) who were standing trial for accessory after the fact to murder.
Miss Umoren, a 26 year-old graduate of Philosophy from the University of Uyo is an indigene of Nung Ita Ikot Essien, Oruk Anam local government area.
She was raped, murdered and buried in a shallow grave by the Mr Akpan.
In April 2021, Mr Akpan lured the deceased to his family residence at Nung Ikono Obio village in Uruan local government area for a job interview, where she was killed.
