Death row inmate�s attorney fails to impress CoA

Patrick Gabaakanye.PIC MORERI SEJAKGOMO
Patrick Gabaakanye.PIC MORERI SEJAKGOMO

An attorney for death row inmate Patrick Gabaakanye has pleaded for mercy from the Court of Appeal (CoA) saying that a death penalty was too harsh for his client.

Yesterday before the bench of three judges, Martin Dingake argued that Gabaakanye was convicted purely based on circumstantial evidence.

The 55-year-old Gabaakanye was convicted and sentenced to death by the High Court in 2014 for the murder of an elderly couple at Ga-Mosu Lands in 2010 that left an old blind man dead and his wife wounded.

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The corrupt must account

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