The Rivers State High Court sitting in Port Harcourt has sentenced a woman Mrs. Telma Bestman and one Wilson Okelekele to death by hanging for conspiring to kill Telma’s husband Bestman Wagbara.
Telma was charged with conspiring with their security guard Wilson Okelekele to kill her husband Bestman Wagbara at their residence along Saint John’s axis of Rumuolumeni Ogbogoro road on February  20, 2020.
Delivering her  judgement, Justice Augusta Chukwu held that the prosecution  proved the case of conspiracy and murder against the convicts, noting that the evidence revealed that Mrs. Telma opened the door for Okelekele, to enter the room and murder her husband on the fateful day.
Speaking in an interview with reporters after the judgement, Counsel to the Rivers State Government, Precious Odu, said, “We are happy. They can’t eat their cake and have it. They cannot just kill an innocent, full-fledged man and expect to go scot-free. 

"No, the law does not allow that. So we are happy that the judgement went this way. We expected it." 
However, Counsel to Wilson Okelekele, 

 Ubogenkere Amadi, said his clients would appeal the judgment as they were not satisfied.
“Naturally, we’ll appeal the judgement as we are not satisfied. We will study the judgement, and definitely appeal,” he added. 
The case had been ongoing in the past four years even as the convicts are to remain in jail awaiting the hangman’s noose.