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Jane Toku sheds no tears as she recalls the moment when she saw the smouldering remains of her son's corpse on the morning he and three of his friends were lynched 10 years ago. The four students had run into a local vigilante group at dawn in Aluu, a community behind the University of Port Harcourt in southern Nigeria's oil capital.

There had been a spate of robberies in the area and at that time of the morning, people became suspicions. Their punishment was handed out immediately: they were stripped, marched around the community, brutally beaten and set alight by the mob as thousands watched and filmed. Such mob killings are not uncommon in Nigeria but this was the first to go viral on social media, causing widespread outrage, protests and debates about the country's judicial system, and questions about a society where people resort to such levels of violence.

But despite the shock and anger over the killing of the students, now known as the Aluu Four, and the sentencing of three men including one police officer, for their roles in the lynching, mob attacks continue to happen in Nigeria.

The Aluu Four lynching was a necklace lynching that involved students of the Department of Geology in the University of Port Harcourt.

There have been mob killings in Nigeria since , according to SBM Intelligence , a Lagos-based think-tank, with at least five this year alone. That begs the question why the outrage over the killing of the Aluu Four didn't lead to a national reckoning over lynchings. He pointed to instances where criminal suspects handed over to the police were released without investigation and ended up seeking revenge on those who had given them up.

It is an argument also made by activist Annkio Briggs, who led demonstrations in Port Harcourt to demand justice for the students and their families, because she "couldn't trust the system to do what was right," she told the BBC. Perpetrators of mob killings in Nigeria are rarely arrested and prosecuted. Two suspects arrested in May after the lynching of a Christian student on allegations of blasphemy in Sokoto have still not been brought to trial, while the police said the main culprits are still at large.

It was one of four reported cases of mob killing in that month alone:. Suspects have been charged in all cases, the police said. But it might be years before there are any verdicts because of the slow pace of justice in Nigeria.