Jealous Air force man, Kalu Bernard who killed lover sentenced to death by hanging

The Nigerian Air Force panel has sentenced Airman Kalu Bernard to death by hanging for killing his lover, Solape Oladipupo, popularly known as Shomzy Shomzy, few months ago.

Reading out the 70-page  court findings, which lasted for about two hours, the Judge Advocate, Flight Lieutenant M.A. Umoh, listed the eight-count charges against 21-year-old Kalu to include murder, house breaking, impersonation, attempted murder, among others.

The defence counsel, Abimiku Ewuga, urged the court to temper justice with mercy, saying the accused was his family breadwinner.

The President of the court, Gp. Capt. Elisha Bindul, who found the accused guilty in six out of the eight counts, sentenced him to death by hanging, subject to the confirmation of the conveying authority.

Ewuga later told reporters that he would appeal the judgement.

Kalu had on March 12, 2017, killed Oladipupo at the, Air Force Base, Makurdi, on the suspicion that she was in a love relationship with another man. He was later arrested and detained.