Yobe: Court fingers dying sentence to 45-year-old man over spouse’s homicide

A Yobe State High Court in Damaturu has sentenced a 45-year-old man, Abubakar Musa, popularly often called Daddy, to dying by hanging for the homicide of his spouse, Ammi Adamu Mamman.

The judgment was delivered on Wednesday by the Chief Judge of the court docket, Justice G.Ok. Kaigama, after the prosecution offered eight witnesses in assist of its case.

Musa was arrested by the Yobe State Police Command on January 4, 2024, following the dying of his 42-year-old spouse at their residence in New Bra-Bra Housing Estate, Damaturu.

He was subsequently arraigned on a cost of culpable murder.

During police investigations, Musa reportedly claimed that an unidentified man had attacked his spouse whereas they had been sleeping on the identical mattress.

According to his account, he awoke after listening to his spouse scream and found that she had sustained a stab wound to her neck and was bleeding profusely.

He additional alleged that he noticed a person carrying a knife and tried to confront him, however two different people reportedly intervened and helped the suspect escape.

Musa maintained his innocence all through the trial, insisting by means of his defence counsel that intruders had damaged into their residence and killed his spouse.

However, after contemplating the proof offered earlier than the court docket, Justice Kaigama discovered the defendant responsible of culpable murder.

The decide held that the prosecution had efficiently established all of the important components of the offence and proved its case past cheap doubt.

Justice Kaigama subsequently imposed the dying sentence by hanging on the convict.

The court docket additionally knowledgeable Musa of his proper to attraction the judgment inside 30 days, in accordance with the relevant legislation.