The convicts in separate judgements by Justices Efe Ikponmwonba and Mary Itsueli were found guilty of charges against them.
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The convict murdered the octogenarian with a stool with the intent to rob her of N100,000 on December 1, 2021.
The convict, who was sentenced on Friday, had been arraigned earlier on a two-count charge of murder and sexual assault.
The plaintiff levelled the accusation in a divorce suit hearing before the Edo State High Court 13 sitting in Benin City
Among those barred on Friday by the court was the National Vice Chairman, South South, Chief Dan Orbih.
The woman, Helen Ehioze, bagged 10 years in jail while her son, Endurance Ehiozee, 37, and daughter, Vivian Ehiozee, 31, were sentenced to 14 years each without an option of fine.
The court’s order is coming on the heels of allegations by the All Progressives Congress in the state that the former speaker and others sponsored thugs who recently invaded the state assembly.
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Friday, September 26, 2014 arraigned Dandeson Ebosele Ibhonitie, 26, (a.k.a Dandy James, Connor Mead and Barrister Louis Harpoch and Charity, 31, before Justice E. F. Ikponmwen of Edo State High Court, Benin-City on a 3- count charge bordering on conspiracy and obtaining money by false pretence.