65-Year-Old Landlord Sentenced To Life Imprisonment For Assaulting Tenant’s Daughters

An Ikeja Sexual Offences and Domestic Violence Court, on Monday, sentenced a 65-year-old man, Igwe Ambrose, to life imprisonment for defiling his tenant daughters.

The victims are aged seven and 11 years.

Osun Defender gathered that the offences were committed between January and June 2021 at Shagari Estate, Ipaja, Lagos.

The convict was said to have inserted his fingers into the private parts of the minors.

Justice Abiola Soladoye of the court sentenced him to double life imprisonment on the four-count charge bordering on sexual assault by penetration and indecent treatment of a child, brought against him by Lagos state.

Justice Soladoye held that the prosecution had proved the charges against the convict beyond a reasonable doubt, describing the convict as a dirty old man who fingered and touched the breasts of the survivors under the pretext of helping them with their school homework.

She said that the defendant was identified and that the evidence of the survivors exposed him as a bare-faced liar, noting that the convict’s defence was untruthful and lacking in merit.

She said: “The defendant was identified as the assailant and their evidence was corroborated by their mother and the Investigating Police Officer (IPO) who visited the crime scene and a clear account of the assault and indecent treatment was confirmed.”

The judge, thereafter, convicted the defendant of the four-count charge levelled against him, contrary to Sections 135 and 261 of the Criminal Laws of Lagos State, 2015.

Justice Soladoye sentenced the convict to life imprisonment on counts one and two and three years each on counts three and four.

The trial judge also ordered that the name of the convict be entered in the Sexual Offences Register maintained by the Lagos State Government.