Court frees 15-year-old rape attempt victim of murder charge

“Also clearly, the intention to kill or cause grievous bodily harm to the deceased cannot be established.” Nigeria EndRape SayNoToRapist Acquittal

, Babatunde Ishola, 51, who attempted to rape her. She was freed based on the legal advice of the Lagos State Director of Public Prosecution that the case lacked ingredients of murder.

According to the Office of Public Defender , “the court ruled that ingredients required to prove the offence of murder against the suspect were not all present from the facts of the case. Recalled that the teenager was represented by the Lagos State Office of the Public Defender since the inception of the matter, a period of detention and investigation at the State Criminal Intelligence and Investigation Department and arraignment before Yaba Magistrates’ Court on a one-count charge of killing Babatunde Ishola on March 7, 2020, at Nwadolu Street, Aboru, in Alimosho Local Government Area of the state, by stabbing him to death with a knife, thereby committing an offence punishable...

Speaking on the matter, the Director, Lagos Office of the Public Defender, Dr Babajide Martins, expressed satisfaction with the decision of the court to free the girl of the murder charge.

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