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After confessing to the kidnapping and killing of Comfort James, a commercial sex worker in Ado Ekiti, 26-year-old David Isaiah was given a death by hanging sentence.

The Ekiti State High Court found Isaiah guilty of conspiracy, kidnapping, and murder, according to a PUNCH report. The court sentenced him to 21 years in jail for conspiracy, life in prison for kidnapping, and death for murder.

In February 2024, Isaiah and his now-deceased co-conspirator Saviour Daniel planned James’ kidnapping. The two guys enticed James by pretending to hire her, then bound her and demanded a ransom of N100,000 from her coworkers, according to court documents.

Isaiah and Daniel realized that the victim had seen their faces and could be able to implicate them, so they poured herbicide into her mouth, cruelly ending her life. The girl had previously been able to make a distress call to her friends.

During the trial, the specifics of the crime were exposed, revealing that the defendant had fraudulently reported that James had been abducted and that a ransom was being sought using her phone.

When the ransom money did not come in, Isaiah and Daniel decided to kill her instead of trying to secure the money. In order to keep James from identifying them, Isaiah and Daniel planned the murder, as he acknowledged in court.

A quick inquiry followed the filing of a report with the police. After following the phone numbers used in the ransom demand, authorities were able to apprehend Isaiah. He guided the Civil Defense police to the scene of the victim’s body discovery, demonstrating the savagery of the murder.

His words: “After having sēx with the deceased, we used her number to call her colleagues that she had been kidnapped and demanded a ransom of N100,000. Her hands and neck were tied all along, but when the ransom was not forthcoming and on realising that she had seen our faces clearly, to avoid being implicated, we poured herbicide in her mouth and she later died.“

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