Police, yesterday, arraigned a 21-year-old house-help, David Uche Ndah, over the killing of a 65-year-old retired Chief Magistrate, Mrs. Olufunmilayo Timeyin, last Friday, at Laderin Estate in Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital.
The accused was arraigned on a one-count charge of murder before the magistrate, Anthony Araba, of the Magistrate Court 1.
The Police Prosecutor, Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP) Banji Sangotokun, read the charge sheet entitled, “Commissioner of Police versus David Uche Ndah” before the court.
He told the court that the accused committed the offence at about 3:00 p.m on 28 March, 2014.
The charge sheet read in part, “That you, David Uche Ndah, on the 28th of March, 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.”
The prosecutor 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, however, pleaded guilty as charged.
In his verdict, the trial magistrate, ordered the police prosecutor to duplicate the case file to enable the Directorate of Public Prosecution (DPP) to advise his court on the case.
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