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A Rivers State High Court sitting in Port Harcourt has convicted and sentenced a man to death by hanging for killing four persons and using their intestines to prepare a peppered soup meal in Okwalie community, Khana Local Government Area of the State.

The convict, Bestman Lekia, also known as Biggie was found guilty of murder, armed robbery, burglary, kidnapping and cultism.

Lekia and others now at large were reported to have killed Gbodu Nobaale, Etim Ekpe, Nenalebarri Mmeabe and Loveday Mmeabe after they were kidnapped and taken to an undisclosed location.

One of those kidnapped, Loveday Mmeable had his stomach ripped open and his intestine used to prepare peppered soup and plantain meal by the abductors in 2019.