{"id":65874,"date":"2025-05-17T04:22:33","date_gmt":"2025-05-17T04:22:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=65874"},"modified":"2025-05-17T04:22:33","modified_gmt":"2025-05-17T04:22:33","slug":"court-sentences-four-for-ebonyi-murder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/05\/17\/court-sentences-four-for-ebonyi-murder\/","title":{"rendered":"Court Sentences Four for Ebonyi Murder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Njoku Chijioke<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>An Ebonyi State High Court has sentenced four men to death for the brutal killing of 26-year-old businessman Chinonso Elon.<\/p>\n<p>Justice Esther Otah delivered the ruling, convicting Anthony Elom, Chibueze Onwe, Chukwuemeka Ugadu, and Uchenna Odono for conspiracy and murder after a chilling attack that stunned the Okwo Ngbo Main Market community.<\/p>\n<p>According to the prosecution, the men stormed Elon\u2019s business area on February 6, 2023, in a marked Sienna van, searching for his younger brother.<\/p>\n<p>When Elon failed to produce him, they dragged him toward the vehicle.<\/p>\n<p>After resisting, he was shot in the head with a shotgun and died instantly.<\/p>\n<p>The judge ruled that the prosecution had proven its case beyond doubt, citing ballistic evidence linking the weapon to the crime scene.<\/p>\n<p>Prosecutor Oluchi Ibiam welcomed the verdict as justice served, while defense lawyer Chinedu Uwa vowed to challenge the decision at the appellate court.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Njoku Chijioke An Ebonyi State High Court has sentenced four men to death for the brutal killing of 26-year-old businessman Chinonso Elon. Justice Esther Otah delivered the ruling, convicting Anthony Elom, Chibueze Onwe, Chukwuemeka Ugadu, and Uchenna Odono for conspiracy and murder after a chilling attack that stunned the Okwo Ngbo Main Market community. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":65875,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1386],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-judiciary"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65874","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65874"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65874\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65876,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65874\/revisions\/65876"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}