Lagos woman collapses in court after bagging death sentence
The convict stabbed the deceased on the chest and arm with a knife during a fight.
Murder contravenes Section 221 of the Criminal Law of Lagos 2011 and is punishable with death by hanging.The judge held that the prosecution proved its case beyond reasonable doubt. “The coroner’s report tendered in evidence confirmed that the deceased was stabbed on the chest. The chest is where the heart is; the defendant, by stabbing the deceased on the chest, a very fragile part of the body, clearly intended to cause the most harm to her.
“The evidence was that the deceased and the defendant lived in a house consisting of rooms occupied by families popularly called ‘face-me-I-face-you’. It is worrisome that the level of violence, unnecessary animosity and death, which occur among our citizens as a result of living together in close proximity without sufficient personal space and boundaries, remain unabated.
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