Tuesday, April 29, 2025 - Justice Nwosu-Iheme of a FCT High Court Wuse Zone 2 in Abuja today April 28, sentenced the husband of late gospel singer, Osinachi, Peter Nwachukwu, to de@th by hanging.
This was after the court found Nwachukwu guilty of culpable
homicide resulting in the de@th of the celebrated singer on April 8, 2022.
While delivering his judgment, Justice Nwosu-Iheme held that
the prosecution had proven the burden of proof placed on it by the law and
subsequently found the defendant guilty.
Nwachukwu first was arraigned on June 3, 2022, by the Office
of the Attorney-General of the Federation (OAGF), on behalf of the Federal
Government, on a 23-count charge.
The charge was on culpable homicide punishable with death, criminal intimidation, cruelty to children, criminal intimidation of children, spousal battery, among others.
The prosecution team presented seventeen witnesses including
two children of the late Osinachi, who testified as fourth and fifth
prosecution witnesses, PW4 and PW5, respectively.
The prosecution also tendered 25 documents as exhibits
before the court. The defendant testified for the defence and further called
four other witnesses and tendered four exhibits in his defence.
Shortly before sentencing, the defendant, counsel, Reginald
Nwali, in his allocutus pleaded with the court to be lenient in its judgment.
Similarly, the prosecution counsel, Mrs Aderonke Imala,
urged the court to give force to the law as stipulated.
The presiding judge thereafter sentenced Nwachukwu to de@th
by hanging on Count 1, while he was sentenced to two years imprisonment each on
Counts 2, 3, 8,9, 12, 13, and 18.
The court sentenced the defendant to six months imprisonment
on Count 10, three years imprisonment in Count 11, while he was fined the sum
of N500,000 and N200,000 respectively on Counts 6 and 7 respectively.
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