A Federal Capital Territory (FCT) High Court on Monday sentenced to death Maryam Sanda, the woman who stabbed her husband, Bilyaminu, son of a former national chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Haliru Bello, to death.
Delivering judgment, Justice Yusuf Halilu, convicted her on circumstantial evidence. Maryam Sanda is to die by hanging.
The killing was premeditated, the police said.
The police accused Sanda of stabbing her husband with a broken bottle at about 3:50 a.m. on Nov. 18, 2017
The police also accused Maimuna Aliyu, Sanda’s mother; Aliyu, her brother, and Sadiya Aminu, her housemaid, of tampering with evidence by cleaning the blood and other proofs from the crime scene, but charges were later dropped. (NAN)
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