A police inspector, simply identified as Samuel Timothy has been sentenced to death by hanging for murder.

Justice Adolphus Enebeli of Rivers State High Court passed the judgment on Monday.

The Inspector shot dead one Onyekachi Nwasouba, a graduate of Industrial chemistry on November 10 , 2010 at No 34 Old Aba road, Port Harcourt at about 5 am.

The deceased had reportedly begged that he was not an armed robber before the officer gunned him down.

According to information available before the court, the deceased was a producer and distributor of his brand of sachet water.

He was out to distribute the sachet water to his clients when he met his untimely death.

Justice Enebeli in his verdict said the matter had been in his court since 2010, describing the convict as inhuman and not fit to live among descent humans.

He said, “inhuman trigger-happy policeman, who engaged in murder, a hater of humankind and merciless killer, after hearing that the victim was an ordinary pure water seller”.

“According to Section 319 of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, I do not have the power to reduce your sentence. That, you, Inspector Timothy Sampson be hanged on your neck until you are dead”, he ruled.

Justice Enebeli further discharged and acquitted Corporal Moses Obediah, saying that the testimonies of witnesses and others before the court showed that he was not part of the gruesome murder.