Justice Fatimah Ahmed Tafida of Adamawa State High Court on Monday, sentenced a 40 year old man, Bangos Adamu, to death by hanging for killing his wife and child.
Fatimah ordered that Bangos, should be hung by the neck until he dies.
She held that the prosecution proved beyond reasonable doubt that Bangos, was guilty of the 2 count charge preffered against him by the prosecution, and convicted him as charge.
The convict, who hails from Janjaba village in Gombi Local Government Area, Adamawa state, was tried and found guilty for killing his beloved wife, Regina Bangos and her child, Revelation James.
NEWS PLATFORM gathered that the convict and a farmer was earlier charged to court for killing his wife by hitting her with an axe on the head and hacking her child with a cutlass which led to their untimely death.
Bangos, in his confessional statement, told the court that he married his late wife after she was divorced by her former husban, adding that she came to his house with a child she bore for her former husband.
He informed the court that anytime they had misunderstanding, the deceased would be complaining and threatening to return to her former husband, and that her seven year old son used to support her decision to return to his father, her erstwhile husband.
According to him, they were together at home on the 15th June, 2021, when she asked him to give her grains in order to prepare food for them, and that he simply replied by telling her to go to the kitchen and get it.
He added that his wife refused to go to the kitchen so as to fetch the grains, instead, demanded that he should buy bread for them to eat and leave the grains to be used the following day.
Bangos, narrated that he refused to buy the bread, and that as soon as he responded that he was not going to buy the bread, she started grumpling to the extend of telling him that it is better for her to return to her former husband's house.
He added that her response made him angry and started nursing grudges against her and the child because of his support, saying that when all of them retired to bed in the night of that fateful day, he woke up, armed himself with axe and cutlass and hit her three (3) times on the head.
He further confessed that while she was struggling to give up her ghost, he used his cutlass and hacked the little to death, saying he fled the scene of the tragic incident and reported himself to the Chairman Local Hunters Association who arrested him and handed him over to ther police in Gombi LGA.
In their reactions shortly after the judgement, counsels to the prosecution, A.A.Babakano, and that of the convict, F. A. Ogbe, thanked the court for the judgement.
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