Tailor jailed 12 years for raping woman in purdah
AN Oyo State High Court sitting in Ibadan, has sentenced one Idris Rasheed, 23, to 12 years imprisonment for raping a woman in purdah. Trial judge, Justice Oyeyemi Ajayi said since the convict confessed to the crime while the doctor’s report confirmed penetration and semen was found, Rasheed was guilty of the charge. The judge said the defendant was hereby sentenced to 12 years imprisonment. Ajayi said the jail term would commenced from January 29, 2023, when the convict was arraigned in court. The defence counsel, Mr. O. Ekundayo, during his plea, said the convict had spent 19 months and nine days at the custody of Agodi prison. Ekundayo said the convict had conducted himself in a manner most reasonably expected of him and has learnt his lesson. He said the convict had endured the pains and agony at the prison facility as a lesson to him. He said that the convict was not a fugitive before and during the time spent at Agodi prison in the circumstances of this case. “Th...