Woman to die by hanging for stabbing, burning husband to death
28-year-old Mary Attah will die by hanging.
An Effunrun High Court in Delta state convicted her for the murder of her husband four years ago.
The court heard that Attah stabbed her husband with a kitchen knife before later setting him ablaze on July 6, 2012.
She had accused him of receiving a call from an unknown lover.
“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 was to kill the deceased or do him grievous bodily harm,” presiding judge, Justice E.I. Oritsejafor said.
“The law is trite that a man intends the natural consequences of his act.
“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,” the judge declared..
