I never meant to kill my lover – Suspect

A 20-year-old lady, who stabbed her live-in-lover to death at the Ajegunle area of Lagos State, has confessed that she did it out of self-defence.

The suspect, Gift Wahab, said she picked the kitchen knife just to threaten and scare her lover, Ebi, 24, from further hitting her.

But rather than keep away, the man had continued pounding her until the knife mistakenly embedded into his neck.

The incident, which occurred on March 19, 2015, led to the deceased bleeding to death.

Trouble between the lovers started after Wahab told the deceased that she was hungry, but he told her to go and drink garri.

The two soon started quarreling, resulting in Ebi repeatedly hitting Wahab.

Apparently filled with anger, the suspect dashed and picked a kitchen knife.

She used it to stab the deceased on the neck.

Wahab said: “Since I couldn’t overpower him, I sought to defend myself.

“I rushed to pick a knife to prevent him from coming closer to hit me.

“But he continued coming towards me.

“It was in the process of dragging with him, that the knife mistakenly got him on the neck.

“He started bleeding.”

The suspect, who started living with Ebi since she was 18, insisted that she never meant to kill him.

She said the two of them were not just live-in-lovers, but had plans to marry.

She added that they once had a baby who died few months after her birth.