An Ikeja Excessive Courtroom on Monday sentenced one Akinwale Akinlabi to 12 years imprisonment for killing his spouse, Tope, who died on February 2, 2020, resulting from sustained harm.
Akinlabi was charged with inflicting bodily harm on his spouse which resulted in her dying.
He, nonetheless, pleaded not responsible to the cost of manslaughter most well-liked towards him by the Lagos State Authorities.
Whereas delivering judgment on Monday, 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 affordable doubt, including that the illegal acts of the accused, harmed the deceased and prompted her dying.
She stated it was clear from the proof earlier than the court docket that the fatality arose from the violence which occurred between the convict and his spouse.
The decide, nonetheless, stated it was additionally clear that the dying was unintentional and that the deceased died shortly after the struggle.
“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 substances of the offence of manslaughter, the defendant is subsequently accordingly convicted of identical.
“Having heard and regarded the plea of the defence counsel, and in addition making an allowance for 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, February 3, 2020,” Ogala held.
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