A Yaba Magistrates' Court in Lagos yesterday discharged and acquitted a 15-year-old girl accused of murdering her father's 51-year-old friend, who tried...
A Yaba Magistrates’ Court in Lagos on Wednesday discharged and acquitted a 15-year-old girl accused of murdering her father’s 51-year-old friend, who tried to rape her.
The State Criminal Intelligence and Investigation Department had on March 24, 2020, in a charge marked C/51/2020, alleged that the teenager stabbed Mr Babatunde Ishola to death on March 7.Ishola was said to be employed as a guard at a school in the community and lived alone. It obtained an order for the pupil to be remanded at the Lagos State Correctional Home for Girls, Idi Arabia, while the case was adjourned for legal advice from the OPD.The plea of the teenager, who was represented pro bono by the Lagos State Office of the Public Defender , was not taken.He said the report corroborated the facts of the matter as set out in the case file, that that there were “insufficient facts to establish a prima facie case of murder against the suspect.”OPD Director Dr.
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