THE Benin Magistrate’s Court has remanded five persons allegedly involved in the assault on three Policewomen at Ikpoba Hill area Benin last week. The accused persons, who are facing charges of attempted murder, include Izinabor Julius, Angela Ovabor, Promise Ovabor, Dele Joy and Happiness Charles. The accused persons, who were arraigned before Magistrate Jonathan Ogbeide, were said to have conspired among themselves to commit felony with attempted murder, punishable under
Section 516 of the Criminal Code.
The accused persons, who pleaded not guilty to the charges, were alleged to have attacked Sergeant Evbakoe Idemudia, Sergeant Edith Mokobia and Corporal Ihensekhien Cordelia attached to the Ikpoba Hill Police Station with bottles and planks, thereby committing an offence punishable under Section 320 of the Criminal Code.
In count four, the accused persons were said to have committed an assault occasioning harm against three police officers after they resisted arrest, even after the police officers identified themselves.
“They were also alleged to have hit the officers all over their back and conducted themselves in a manner likely to cause the breach of peace by behaving in disorderly manner, before stripping them naked in a public place, an offence punishable under Sections 355, 249 of the Criminal Code,” the prosecution said.
Magistrate Ogbeide remanded the accused persons after refusing the bail application argued by their counsel.
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