A 20-year-old man, Agugu
Justice Nafisa Musa of a High Court sitting in Jos delivered the judgement on Thursday.
The judge said, “Based on the evidence before this court, the prosecution has proved beyond reasonable doubt that you, Adau, mercilessly took the life of your own mother.
“The judgement of this court upon you is that you will be hanged by the neck until you die, may God have mercy on your soul.”
Mr Adau committed the crime on December 30, 2016 after his mother refused to give him a charm that would cause him to disappea at will.
He claimed the charm was his inheritance from his late herbalist father.
The convict was said to have killed his mother at his Kisaghyip village farm in Bassa Local Government Area of Plateau State.
After killing his mother, he removed the sum of N20,000 from her blood-soaked clothes and used it to buy a mobile phone, a shirt and a pair of slippers.
Adau told NAN, “On this fateful day at the farm, I asked her about it, but she threatened to throw the charm into the river, if I disturbed her too much.
“Her response infuriated me and I suddenly felt that she was of no value to me as a mother. I immediately slaughtered her with the knife I was using to harvest potatoes. After slaughtering her, I dumped her body in the bush.”
