A housewife Yewande Oyediran was on Monday sentenced to seven years imprisonment by an Oyo State High Court, Ringroad, Ibadan, the Oyo state capital, for finding her guilty of the death of her husband.
The term is to run from the day of her arrest.
According to the court, evidence showed that she was responsible for the death of her husband, although none of the witnesses was able to establish the intent of the accused or described seeing her commit the crime.
It was however noted that the killing was done without intent going by the fact that the couple were married at the time of the incident.
Yewande allegedly stabbed her late husband, Lowo Oyediran, on February 2, 2016, at their residence 30, Adeniyi Layout, Abidi-odan, Akobo, Ibadan, following a misunderstanding that broke out between them at middle of the night
Yewande was arraigned on a lone count charge of allegedly killing her husband with knife.
The offence is contrary to Section 316 and punishable under section 319 of the laws of Oyo State.
The accused however pleaded not guilty to the charge when the count was read to her in court.
The Chief Justice Muntar Abimbola who presided over the court earlier apologised to the court for shifting the judgement initially slated for Friday,
Chief Justice Muntar Abimbola said the shifting of the date is due to other official engagement at the Nigerian Judicial Commission necessitated the postponement of the judgement till Monday.
Noting that the incident was a fall out of a spontaneous fight between the couple, the court said none of the witnesses was able to establish the case of intent in the incident that led to the injury that caused the death.
The judge maintained that there was no need for a second attack on the deceased as given by the oral evidence of the witnesses.
The judge said that the witnesses had told the court that there had been an initial attack where Yewande was said to have stabbed the late husband with a pair of scissors but that the matter was settled before the one that led to the death of the deceased couples of hours later.
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