A Yaba magistrate court, Lagos, yesterday remanded a 28-year-old man, Kazeem Aleshinloye, in the Kirikiri Maximum Prisons over alleged killing of a man accused of theft.
The chief magistrate, Mrs Oluwatoyin Oghere, remanded Aleshinloye and ordered that the case file be sent to the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) for advice.
The defendant is facing a two-count charge of conspiracy and murder.
Earlier, the prosecutor, Sgt. Modupe Olaluwoye, told the court that the accused committed the offences with some other persons still at large, on Dec. 22 at 4.30am at CAC St., Powerline area of Ikorodu, Lagos.
Olaluwoye alleged that the defendant used a plank to beat the deceased (unidentified male) to death because he was accused of stealing electrical appliances from a house on the street.
According to her, the defendant beat up the deceased with some neighbours and passersby.
Olaluwoye said the deceased was rushed to a nearby hospital when the police arrived, but he was pronounced dead on arrival by a doctor. (NAN)
