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₦15m Blackmail: 19-Year-Old Girl Releases Nude Video Of Ex-Perm Sec In Bayelsa (Pic)
Nineteen-year-old Miss Charlotte Delhi has been arraigned earlier than a Federal Excessive Court docket sitting in Yenagoa by the Division of State Companies (DSS) over her alleged involvement within the sharing of a nude video of a former Everlasting Secretary of the State Ministry of Training, Dr. Walton Liverpool on social media.
She was additionally accused of blackmailing Liverpool, to extort the sum of N15 million him.
The DSS, within the swimsuit numbered FHC/YNG/33C/2021, filed one depend in opposition to the defendant, alleging that she engaged in cyber-stalking with the intention of blackmail, which is opposite to Part 24(2)c and punishable beneath subparagraph (b) of the cybercrime (prohibition, prevention, and so forth) Act, 2015.
The cost learn to the defendant stated, “That you simply, Charlotte Delhi on the 14th day of September, 2021 in Yenagoa inside the jurisdiction of this honourable court docket for the aim of extorting the sum of N15 million from Dr. Walton Liverpool, deliberately posted a video displaying the bare look of the stated Dr. Walton Liverpool on a WhatsApp group tagged ‘Off Liverpool’ with an Iphone7 plus cell phone and GSM. No. 08084267342.”
The Defendant, Delhi, nevertheless, pleaded not responsible to the cost.
The Principal Authorized Officer of the DSS, Victor Uchendu Esq, a former Lawyer-Common of Bayelsa State and counsel for the Defendant, A.S. Arthur Esq disagreed on the problem of bail utility however agreed that the trial ought to take pleasure in accelerated listening to.
Victor Uchendu Esq argued that the defence counsel had just some hours earlier than the trial handed him the appliance for bail course of.
He additionally stated the important thing witness to the case was not in good well being situation, subsequently, looking for the choose’s go away for adjournment.
“I used to be served the bail utility two hours earlier than the court docket sitting and there was no time for me to review the weighty allegations,” he stated.
In the meantime, Arthur argued that the defence group would have beloved for the presiding Decide to listen to the appliance for bail primarily based on the age and gender of the accused.
“She has been in detention for over 13 days,” he famous, including the DSS had refused to grant her attorneys entry to her.
The Presiding Decide, Justice Isa Dashen nevertheless adjourned the swimsuit for listening to to Thursday, October 21, 2021, and ordered that the accused be remanded within the State Correctional Centre in Okaka.
The nude video of Liverpool was allegedly circulated on social media by the accused reportedly after the refusal of her sufferer to succumb to blackmail.
