Murder: Court sentences Cameroonian house-help to death
Justice Adedayo Akintoye convicted the defendant after a nearly two year trial following his “not guilty” plea to a one-count charge of murder.The defendant, a refugee from Cameroon, had testified that Adeleke mistakenly stabbed herself after she fell while she was pursuing him with a kitchen knife.
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