A
Nigerian commercial sex worker in the Iyana Ipaja area of Lagos State, Nkechi
Okafor has been sentenced to six years imprisonment for allegedly stabbing one
of her clients, Abiodun Sarumi to death.
27
year-old Nkechi who is a primary school dropout is a mother of a four-year-old
girl and hails from Imo State.
She
was found guilty today by Justice Lateefat Okunnu of the Ikeja High court of
manslaughter after the charges of murder preferred against her was amended to
manslaughter.
Nkechi
was arraigned on 16 March 2012, on a one count charge of murder. The charge was
later amended to manslaughter.
Justice
Okunnu held that from evidence before her, Miss Okafor acted on impulse by
stabbing Sarumi, but without the intention to kill.
She
noted that her defence for the act was not enough to exornorate her of the
crime.
After
the judge pronounced the judgment, Nkechi who was crying, pleaded with the
court to have mercy on her, saying that she doesn’t have anybody to help her
and that she is very sorry for what happened.
Her
defence counsel, Mrs A. Onabolu, who also pleaded on her behalf, said the
defendant is a young woman in her prime age, a first offender and that she is
sorry for what happened.
The
prosecuting counsel, Olabisi Ogungbesan, had told the court that the accused on
2 March, 2010, at about 23:30 hours, at Nice Time Hotel, Old Ipaja Road, Lagos,
killed her client, one Mr. Abiodun Sarumi, by stabbing him with a bottle on his
shoulder, close to the armpit.
Ogungbesan,
said that investigation carried out in the matter by Inspector Ada Erondu from
state Criminal Investigation Department, Panti, Lagos, confirmed the Nkechi
caused the death of Sarumil.
She
said that the sex worker admitted that she stabbed Sarumi but that she didn’t
know that he was going to die.
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