A Chief Magistrates’ Court in Ilawe-Ekiti, Ekiti State on Monday sentenced a man, Emmanuel Samson, to six years imprisonment for stabbing his former wife Alice.
Also sentenced to six years imprisonment was Samson’s friend, Lucky Obere, with whom he carried out the stabbing.
Delivering judgment, Chief Magistrate Olufemi Ayedun held that the Prosecution has proven its case beyond reasonable doubt.
Ayedun held: “On count one, they are sentenced to three years imprisonment each.
“On count two, they are equally sentenced to three years imprisonment each without option of fine.
“The sentences are to run concurrently.”
The convicts, whose addresses were not provided, are charged with conspiracy and assault occasioning harm.
Earlier the Prosecution Counsel, Inspector Morountonu Adegboye, told the court that the convicts committed the offence on November 19 in Ilawe-Ekiti.
Adegboye said the convicts conspired, attacked and stabbed Alice.
He said Alice, who is Samson’s former wife, suffered grievous hurt on the head, arm and other parts of the body.
In her testimony before the court, Alice said Samson was the father of her five children.
Alice said Obere caught up with the tricycle she was in on her way to visit her mother on the Igbara-Odo Ekiti Road.
She said: “My husband emerged from the bush and started beating me.
“He stabbed me with a knife on the head, arm and other parts of the body in the presence of Obere.”
To prove his case, the prosecutor called three witnesses and tendered statements among others and exhibits.
The offence, he said, contravened the provisions of sections 516(A) and 516 of the Criminal Code, Cap C-16, Laws of Ekiti State, 2012.
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