Sanda was convicted and sentenced to death by hanging on January 27, 2020 by Justice Yusuf Halilu, the trial judge
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The statement said: “The attention of NCoS has been drawn to the news making the rounds that Maryam Sanda was granted presidential pardon on Thursday April 9, alongside some 70 other inmates at the Medium Security Custodial Centre, Kuje.
Following her conviction by an FCT High Court over the alleged killing of her husband, Bilyaminu Bello, Maryam Sanda has approached the Court of Appeal, Abuja Division, asking the court to set aside the verdict and acquit her.
On the pronouncement by Justice Yusuf Halilu that Sanda was to die by hanging, she did not allow the judge complete the sentence before her scream ran through the court
Delivering judgment, Justice Yusuf Halilu convicted Sanda based on the “doctrine of last seen”.
The absence of Justice Yusuf Halilu of an FCT High Court, Maitama, on Monday, stalled the trials of Senator Dino Melaye and an alleged husband killer, Maryam Sanda, on Monday.
An FCT High Court in Maitama on Thursday dismissed a no-case submission made by Maryam Sanda, accused of killing her husband, Bilyaminu Bello, and ordered her to enter her defence.
An FCT High Court, Maitama, Abuja on Tuesday, fixed April 4 for ruling in the no-case submission filed by Maryam Sanda, who allegedly killed her husband, Bilyaminu Bello.
Justice Yusuf Halilu of an FCT High Court on Monday ordered the police to provide names and witness statements to the defence counsel in the trial of Maryam Sanda and three others, charged with the alleged killing of , Bilyaminu, a nephew of former PDP Chairman, Alhaji Bello uhammad.
Muhammed, who was testifying in the culpable murder case against Maryam Sanda, accused of allegedly killing Bilyaminu, said: “I saw wounds on his lap and neck”.
The case of Maryam Sanda standing trial before an FCT High Court for allegedly killing her husband, Bilyaminu Bello, on Wednesday suffered another setback due to the curfew imposed on some parts of Kaduna state.
The ongoing trial of Maryam Sanda, for alleged murder of her husband, Bilayaminu Bello, before Justice Yusuf Halilu of the FCT High Court, Maitama, on Thursday, suffered yet another adjournment for the third time.
Maryam Sanda, the alleged killer of her husband, Bilyaminu Bello, on Wednesday in Abuja named her new born baby according to Islamic rite.
Maryam, the first defendant, was alleged to have killed her husband on November 19, 2017 through multiple stabbing, and was arraigned at the court by the Nigeria Police with three other persons.
Maryam and three others – Maimuna Aliyu, her mother; Aliyu Sanda, her brother, and Sadiya Aminu, her housemaid, are standing trial before an FCT High Court on a two- count of culpable homicide and conspiracy.
The other defendants are: Maimuna Aliyu, Maryam’s mother, Aliyu Sanda, the brother and Sadiya Aminu, the housemaid.
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that Bilyaminu was the son of Haliru Bello, former National Chairman of PDP.
Joseph Daudu (SAN), counsel to Maryam, had filed notice of appeal against a ruling given by Federal Capital Territory High Court, which had earlier on December 14, 2017, denied the defendant bail.
Sanda, who was remanded in the Suleja prison, Niger State in November 2017, was alleged to have stabbed to the death Bilyaminu, son of erstwhile PDP Chairman, Dr Haliru Bello.
The names of the three co-defendants to be arraigned alongside Sanda before Justice Yusuf Halilu of FCT High Court, Jabi, were, however, not mentioned.