UPDATED: Police Officer Bags Death Sentence For 2022 Christmas Day Shooting Of Bolanle Raheem

A Lagos High Court Sitting at the Tafawa Balewa Square, Lagos Island, on Monday, sentenced to death the Assistant Superintendent of Police, Drambi Vandi, who killed a Lagos-based lawyer, Omobolanle Raheem.

The court found the suspended police Officer guilty on one count of murder.

Justice Ibironke Harrison held that the Lagos State Government’s prosecution had proven the case against the convict beyond all reasonable doubt.

Vandi had pulled the trigger at Raheem’s vehicle on December 25, 2022, hitting her, around Ajah Bridge.

Raheem’s death attracted wide condemnations from Nigerians who called for reform in the police force.

The Police Service Commission (PSC) approved the immediate suspension of Vandi over the killing of the lawyer in late December.

Vandi was also remanded in the Ikoyi Correctional Centre after his appearance at the Magistrate Court in Yaba in the same month following a murder charge filed against him by the former Lagos State Attorney-General, Moyosore Onigbanjo, SAN.