Court remands 35-year-old woman for allegedly stabbing co-tenant to death

A 35-year-old woman, Stella Olowofoyeku, has been remanded in a correctional centre by a Yaba Chief Magistrates’ Court in Lagos for allegedly stabbing her co-tenant to death with a broken bottle.

The defendant, who is a petty trader, is facing a count charge of murder, but her plea was not taken.

The Chief Magistrate, Oluwatoyin Oghere, ordered that the defendant be kept at the Ikoyi Correctional Centre, Lagos, pending legal advice from the Lagos State Director of Public Prosecution (DPP).

Oghere, thereafter, adjourned the case till March 24.

Earlier, the prosecutor, Sergeant Modupe Olaluwoye, had told the court that the woman committed the offence at 11.30 pm. at Mati Community, Snake Island, Apapa area of Lagos State.

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She said that the woman stabbed her co-tenant, Mr Monday Bella, to death with a broken bottle because he was playfully touching her in the waist.

According to Olaluwoye, the deceased was touching the defendant on her waist, but she kept telling him to stop but he refused.

She told the court that the situation escalated into a serious fight in which the defendant picked up a broken bottle and stabbed him in the neck.

She said that other co-tenants rushed the deceased to a hospital but was declared dead on arrival.

According to the prosecutor, the offence contravenes Section 222 and punishable under Section 223 of the Criminal Laws of Lagos State, 2015 (Revised).