The police in Ogun on Friday arraigned a 21-year-old house help, David Uche Ndah, who allegedly killed a 65-year-old retired chief magistrate one week ago at Laderin Estate, Abeokuta.
Ndah, who appeared at Magistrate Court 1 before Magistrate Anthony Araba, was arraigned on a one-count charge of murder.
Police prosecutor, assistant superintendent of Police, Banji Sangotokun, told the court that the accused committed the offence at about 3pm on March 28, 2014.
According to the charge sheet: “David Uche Ndah, on March 28, 2014, at about 1500hrs, at Block 11, Flat C of Laderin House Estate, Abeokuta in Abeokuta Magisterial District did unlawfully kill one Funmilayo Timehin, aged 65 by machetting her to death.”
Sangotokun further stated that the accused committed the offence “contrary to Section 316 and punishable under Section 319 of the Criminal Code Law of Ogun State of Nigeria 2006.”
The accused pleaded guilty to the offence as charged.
The accused pleaded guilty to the offence as charged.
In his ruling, the trial magistrate who looked distraught and almost betrayed emotion however, ordered the police prosecutor to duplicate the case file to enable the Directorate of Public Prosecution (DPP) to advise his court on the case.
No date was fixed for the continuation of the trial but the magistrate ordered that the accused be remanded in prison custody pending receipt of the DPP advice.
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