A female Lawyer, Yewande Oyediran, who was convicted of
killing her husband Lowo, was on Monday sentenced to seven years in prison by
Justice Muntar Abimbola of the Oyo State High Court sitting in Ibadan.
Yewande was convicted of manslaughter.
Yewande, a former staff of the Department of Public Prosecution
in the Oyo State Ministry of Justice, was accused of killing her husband with a
knife after a disagreement on February 2, 2016, at their residence in Akobo
area of Ibadan.
She was arrested and arraigned in court but she pleaded not
guilty to the murder charge preferred against her.
According to Justice Abimbola, Yewande’s sentence was to
start running since the day of her arrest.
The day of judgement was initially slated for November 24,
2017 but the judge moved the day to November 27, 2017 because of other
engagements at the Nigerian Judicial Commission.
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.
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