A High Court sitting in Port Harcourt has discharged and acquitted a 15-year-old boy, Emmanuel Chibuike, of a manslaughter suit filed against him.
A High Court sitting in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, has discharged and acquitted a 15-year-old boy, Emmanuel Chibuike, of a manslaughter suit filed against him.
Chibuike had stabbed Buhari in self-defence during an attack on him by the latter and his friends in the Mile three area of Port Harcourt. Justice Thompson said it was not in doubt that the deceased died, but that the act was not intentional as the defendant acted in self-defense from the deceased who bullied him.
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