Turnbull (1976) 3 ALL ER 549, (1977) QB 224; Ikemson v. State (1989) 1 CLRN 1." Also, in Balogun v. A-G. Ogun State (2002) 6 NWLR (Pt.763), Pg. 512 at 534, the Supreme Court per Uwaifo JSC held thus: "An identification parade will be useful when a witness claims to have seen an unfamiliar person who escaped from a crime scene in circumstances which require putting to test the witness's power of recognition based upon the physical features and/or other peculiarities of the person he claims to have seen. There must be real doubts as to who the witness claims he saw in connection with the offence to require identification parade." See also Ukpabi v. State (2004) 11 NWLR Pt. 884 Pg. 439; Ebiri v. State (2004) 11 NWLR Pt. 885 Pg. 589; Sunday Ndidi v. The State (2007) All FWLR Pt. 381Pg. 1617; Archibong v. The State (2006) 14 NWLR Pt.1000 Pg. 349; Ogoala v. The State (1991) 2 NWLR Pt.175 Pg. 509. Thus, an identification parade would be necessary where the accused was not arrested at the scene of the crime; the witness did not know the accused before; witness was confronted with the accused for a short time, the witness, because of the peculiar circumstances did not have the opportunity to see fully the features of the accused. The proper procedure in identification parade is to shield the accused from members of the public before the identification parade is conducted. See Jerome Akpan & Ors v. The State (2002) 12 NWLR Pt. 780 Pg. 189. The usual way to conduct identification parade is to put the accused with other persons for the witness to pick. The police are not entitled to assist the identification of an accused person or suspect under arrest by bringing out the accused in handcuffs. See Waidi Ajibade v. The State (1987) 1 NWLR Pt. 48 Pg. 205. Identification parade would not be properly conducted when the witness is asked leading questions like "Is this the person?" or when a police officer nods in the direction of the accused person. Since the Appellant was identified by PW1 at the police station where he was taken after being arrested for the crime PW1 complained of, there was no identification parade. The identification parade must be considered with the description of the accused person given to the police shortly after the offence was committed which should have been given by PW2 who

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