An Ikeja Excessive Courtroom, Lagos State, yesterday sentenced one Akinwale Akinlabi to 12 years imprisonment, for killing his spouse, Tope, who died on Feb. 2, 2020, attributable to sustained damage.
Akinlabi, was charged with inflicting bodily damage on his spouse which resulted to her dying. He, nevertheless, pleaded not responsible to the cost of manslaughter most well-liked towards him by the Lagos State Authorities.
Whereas delivering judgment yesterday, Justice Oyindamola Ogala, held that the prosecution sufficiently proved the cost of manslaughter towards Akinlabi. She held that the prosecution offered circumstantial proof past each cheap doubt, including that the illegal acts of the accused, harmed the deceased and triggered her dying.
She stated that it was clear from the proof earlier than the courtroom that the fatality arose from the violence which occurred between the convict and his spouse. The decide, nevertheless, stated it was additionally clear that the dying was unintentional and that the deceased died shortly after the battle.
“The vertical scars on the again of the deceased as acknowledged in exhibit (f), corroborates the proof of the prosecution witnesses. “Prosecution has certainly established the elements of the offence of manslaughter, the defendant is due to this fact accordingly convicted of similar.
“Having heard and thought of the plea of the defence counsel and in addition considering the peculiarity of this case, the defendant is accordingly sentenced to a time period of 12 years imprisonment.
“The sentencing shall start from the interval of his incarceration, Feb. 3, 2020,” Ogala held. The Information Company of Nigeria (NAN) studies that Akinlabi was arraigned on July, 26, 2021, on a depend cost of manslaughter. T
he prosecution counsel, Mrs Uju Nwaogazi, had informed the courtroom that the convict dedicated the offence on Feb. 2, 2020, at No 23, Adeogun Avenue, Ijaiye Ojokoro, Lagos.
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