Court sentences Yewande to 7 years for killing husband

 A high court in Ibadan has sentenced lawyer Yewande Oyediran to seven years in prison after she was convicted of killing her husband, Lowo. The court convicted her for manslaughter in the 2016 death of her husband. Yewande, who worked in the department of public prosecution in Oyo state justice ministry, was accused of killing […]

 A high court in Ibadan has sentenced lawyer Yewande Oyediran to seven years in prison after she was convicted of killing her husband, Lowo.

The court convicted her for manslaughter in the 2016 death of her husband.

Yewande, who worked in the department of public prosecution in Oyo state justice ministry, was accused of killing her husband with a knife after the couple had a fight in February last year at their residence in Akobo area of Ibadan.

Her sentence will run from the date of her arrest, the court ruled.

The court said the convict was charged on a murder count and evidence pointed to Yewande as the killer of her husband; but witnesses presented by the defence counsel failed to establish the intent behind the killing.

The court held that going by the relationship between Yewande and her husband as husband and wife (at the time of the husband’s death), the killing was done without intent.

The couple had no child together.