Housewife Has Been Sentenced To Death For Stabbing And Setting Husband Ablaze

A 28-year old housewife, Mrs. Mary Attah, has
been sentenced to death by hanging by a Delta
State High Court, sitting in Effurun, for stabbing
her husband, Pastor Darlington Attah, with a
kitchen knife and setting him ablaze.

She was pronounced guilty on the one-count
charge preffered against her by Justice E.I.
Oritsejafor.

The prosecution counsel, Patrick Mekako Esq, told
the court that the accused who was married to the
deceased, with four children, had on or about 6
July, 2012 at Effurun, within the Effurun Judicial
Division, attacked her husband with a kitchen
knife and stabbed him in the neck as a result of an
alleged phone call from the husband’s lover.
He further told the Court that the accused was
infuriated by the telephone call at a time they
were having a ‘nice time’ which prompted her to
rush to the kitchen, took a knife and pepper which
she rubbed on her husband’s face to demobilize
him before stabbing him in the neck.
Not satisfied, the convict doused the husband who
was already weak as a result of excessive bleeding
with fuel and set him ablaze and he later died at
the Warri Central Hospital where he was rushed
to.

The offence is punishable by death under Section
319(1) of the Criminal Code Law, Cap C21, Volume
1, Laws of Delta State of Nigeria, 2006.
Delivering the death sentence, Justice Oritsejafor
held that the prosecution was able to prove
beyond all reasonable doubt the essential
ingredients of the offence of murder against the
accused person.

“I must also add that the evidence before this
Court do not and cannot support the plea of self
defence in favour of the accused person.
I agree with the learned Assistant Director for the
Prosecution that there is just no possible defence
to avail the accused person when she stabbed her
deceased husband in the neck with a knife and
thereafter doused him with fuel before she struck
the match on him.
Her intention was to kill the deceased or do him
grievous bodily harm. The law is trite that a man
intends the natural consequences of his act.
“From the evidence before this Court and in
particular the extra-judicial statement of the
accused person, Exhibit A and the evidence of
PW1 and PW2 which corroborate and consistent
with the facts contained in the said extra judicial
statement Exhibit A, I hold that the prosecution
proved beyond reasonable doubt that the accused
person murdered her deceased husband on or
about the 6th day of July, 2012, and I find the
accused person guilty of the murder of Darlington
Attah as charged.

Accused person is accordingly, hereby convicted
of the offence of murder. The sentence of this
Court upon you, Mary Attah is death by hanging
by the neck till you be dead and may the Lord
have mercy on your soul,” Justice Oritsejafor held.

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