Uduak Akpan was given a death sentence by hanging

Umoren, a University of Uyo gospel graduate, failed in April 2021. While awaiting rallying for the National Youth Service Corps( NYSC) program, she was looking for a job.Uduak's father, Frank Akpan, and Anwan Bassey, his family, were released and set up not guilty.On July 26, 2021, the defendant made his original court appearance and entered a plea of shamefaced to murder but not shame faced to rape.

Umoren, a University of Uyo gospel graduate, failed in April 2021. While awaiting rallying for the National Youth Service Corps( NYSC) program, she was looking for a job.Uduak's father, Frank Akpan, and Anwan Bassey, his family, were released and set up not guilty.On July 26, 2021, the defendant made his original court appearance and entered a plea of shamefaced to murder but not shame faced to rape. 

Although the defendant admitted killing the victim, the court entered a not- shame faced plea for the death of Ms.Umoren.To the amazement of numerous, Akpan latterly changed his mind during his trial and refuted allegations that he ravished and boggled Ms.Umoren.

He claimed to the court that he'd a fever the day he entered his shamefaced plea and that his probing police officer had told him to do so.The internee emphasized that a analogous statement he gave to the Department of State Services( DSS) was made under pressure and that he also refuted the confessional commentary he made to the police.

However, Ama Okeke, a DSS call data critic who witnessed in court, showed the jury a tape recording of Mr. Akpan's interview that refuted his assertions. The footage was accepted as substantiation by the court.In the further than two- hour trial, the judge set up Mr. Akpan shamefaced of rape and stated that the execution's case for rape and murder against Mr. Akpan was beyond a reasonable doubt.The condemned robber tried to flee the court room when the verdict was blazoned, but security labor force stopped him.