Charity Nnaji:
Narebor Stephen Donbrapade, a 49-year-old judiciary
staff in Delta State, has been sentenced to death.
Donbrapade will
die by the hangman’s noose as ordered by a Delta State high court sitting in
Ughelli for stabbing his flat mate’s wife to death.
The accused, hails from Esama town in Bomadi Local
Government Area, had on or about January 31, 2013, murdered one Stella
Avwenayerhe by stabbing her on the chest at Otobo Street, Ughelli.
He was said to share a three bedroom flat with the deceased’s
husband but had a minor altercation with the victim after he walked on the rug
in the sitting room without removing his shoes.
Angered by the deceased’s audacity, the accused
dashed into his room only to appear with a knife with which he stabbed Stella
Avwenayerhe on the chest. She was confirmed dead by doctors at the Ughelli
Central hospital, where she was rushed to by neighbours.
The accused, in his defense, pleaded not guilty to
the one-count charge of murder, alleging that the victim was stabbed to death
by some unidentified hoodlums in the area.
Delivering his judgment, Justice F. O. Ohwo found
the accused guilty on the one-count charge preferred against him by the State
Attorney-General through the Director of Public Prosecutions.
He held that the evidences of the four prosecution
witnesses called by an Assistant Director in the Ministry of Justice, including
the husband of the deceased, proved beyond all reasonable doubt the essential
ingredients of the offence of murder against the accused.
The accused was then sentenced to death by hanging. Daily Post
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