Alleged Port Harcourt serial killer of women in Hotels, Gracious David West has been sentenced to death by hanging by Justice Adolphus Enebele of the High Court sitting in Port Harcourt. David West was convicted of the murder of eleven women in hotels last year, and the attempted murder of Benita Etim.
Justice Enebele in his judgment said the prosecution team was able to convince the court that David-West was the killer of the women. Meanwhile, the second defendant, ThankGod Nimi, a female manager of a hotel in Bende Street in Port Harcourt who pleaded not guilty to the one-count charge of misconduct of corpse of one the victims who died in their hotel on September 18. She was accused of dumping the corpse of the victim in a dustbin along Aggrey road instead of reporting to the police has been discharged and acquitted.
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The judge pronounced death by hanging as the prescribed punishment for Gracious David-West.
Gracious David West had earlier denied the images showing him and one of the late girls captured in CCTV footage during their visit to the hotel in Port Harcourt. This was after he admitted to killing eleven women in hotel rooms by strangling them with pillowcases available in the hotel room. Davidwest made the denial in court during the cross-examination by the prosecution team.
