The Oyo State High Court on Monday sentenced Yewande Oyediran, a lawyer to seven years imprisonment for stabbing her husband, Lowo, to death.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the trial judge, Munta Abimbola, said Yewande was convicted of manslaughter and not murder as charged.
Abimbola said that while the prosecution proved that the defendant caused the death of the deceased, it failed to proof that it was done intentionally.
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He ordered that the seven year imprisonment should commence from February 2, 2016 when she was arrested.
The judge said that with the evidence before the court, the convict and her late husband had frequently engaged in domestic violence.
He also adjudged the evidence of the couple’s landlord and wife, Mr and Mrs Akinpelu, as credible.
The landlord and his wife had told the court that they saw the convict holding a knife, while the deceased was in a pool of blood.
“Having seen the defendant holding a knife and the defendant had earlier confirmed that she had earlier stabbed her husband with a pair of scissors a day before, I hold that it was the defendant that stabbed the deceased,” said the judge.
Abimbola also said that he took into consideration the autopsy report of Prof. Abideen Oluwashola, a consultant from the University College Hospital (UCH), Ibadan.
