Female lawyer bags 7-yrs for stabbing husband to death

An Oyo State High Court sitting in Ibadan yesterday sentenced a female lawyer, Yewande Oyediran, to seven years imprisonment for stabbing her husband, Lowo, to death. The trial Judge, Munta Abimbola, said the convict was convicted of manslaughter and not of murder as alleged. Abimbola said while the prosecution proved that the defendant caused the […]

An Oyo State High Court sitting in Ibadan yesterday sentenced a female lawyer, Yewande Oyediran, to seven years imprisonment for stabbing her husband, Lowo, to death.

The trial Judge, Munta Abimbola, said the convict was convicted of manslaughter and not of murder as alleged.

Abimbola said while the prosecution proved that the defendant caused the death of the deceased, it failed to prove that it was done intentionally.

He, however, ordered that the seven years imprisonment should commence from Feb. 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 having earlier confirmed that she had earlier stabbed her husband with a pair of scissors a day before, I holds that it was the defendant that stabbed the deceased,’’ the judge said.

Abimbola also said he took into consideration the autopsy report of Prof. Abideen Oluwashola, a consultant from the University College Hospital (UCH), Ibadan, which said the deceased died as a result of shock from a deep wound caused by a sharp object.

The court said the evidence of the convict could not be relied upon because her statement with the police was different from her statement before the court.

Oyediran, a staff of the Directorate of Public Prosecution (DPP) in the Oyo State Ministry of Justice, stabbed her husband to death on Feb. 2, 2016, at Akobo area of Ibadan. (NAN)