Monday, June 3, 2024 -A High Court in Birnin Kebbi on Monday sentenced a woman, Farida Abubakar, to death by hanging for killing her former husband, Chief Magistrate Attahiru Muhammad-Ibrahim.
The News Agency of Nigeria reports Abubbakar
was arraigned before the court for murder on August 25, 2022, while the main
charge was filed on July 26, 2023.
The prosecution said that the convict
stabbed her ex-husband with a sharp object on his abdomen, neck and left arm,
which led to his death .
Delivering judgment, the Chief Judge of the
state, who adjudicated on the case, Justice Umar Abubakar, held that the court
was convinced that the accused person committed the crime, based on the
evidence adduced by the prosecution.
In mitigation, the defence counsel,
Mudashiru Sani, holding brief for Abdulnasir Sallau, described the convict as
first time offender with aged parents.
The counsel said that the convict was her
parents’ caregiver and also has a young daughter in need of motherly care.
He pleaded with the court to give the
convict lighter sentence, so that she could finish her time and come back to
the society as a reformed individual, considering her age.
In reply, the Prosecuting Counsel, who is
the Director, Public Prosecution in the state Ministry of Justice, Lawal
Hudu-Garba, enjoined the court to follow the letter of the law to serve as
deterrent to others from committing the same offence.
Shortly after the judgment, the defence counsel, Sani, said, his client would appeal the verdict.
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