A 25-year-old lady Rebecca Nicodemus has stabbed her senior rival to dying jiffy after sleeping with their husband.
Rebecca was stated to have been jealous that her husband left her in mattress throughout an ongoing intercourse session to make like to the senior spouse recognized as Precious.
It was gathered that each ladies lived in a room and a parlour house with their husband.
A fracas was stated to have ensued between them when late Precious stepped out of the room the place she slept with their husband.
The incident occurred on February 4 round 5.00am at Idogun Camp by way of Ode-Irele in Ondo State.
Rebecca was subsequently arrested and arraigned on a one depend cost of homicide earlier than an Akure Magistrates’ Court.
In a Police First Information Report the place the suspect narrated what transpired, she stated it was not her intention to kill the senior spouse.
According to her: “I got here to Ondo State in January, 2022 and we had been leaving in the identical home. I’m a farmer and now we have been relating collectively in concord alongside the deceased.
“On that fateful day, my husband was earlier with me in the lounge however needed to excuse himself on a pretext that we weren’t free to proceed with our love making.
“I used to be ready for my husband after I found he was making like to the senior spouse contained in the bed room.
“I additionally heard them making derogatory remarks about me. So, I waited within the sitting room for my rival to come back out from the room and when she got here out , I challenged her over her unkind phrases.
“Rather than the deceased to be apologetic, she instantly grabbed my garments which made me indignant
“So, I took a knife on the desk in our sitting room and stabbed her on the again with the knife.
“It was not my intention to kill her, I over reacted in anger”.
Police Prosecutor, Obadasa Ajiboye, knowledgeable the court docket that the defendant stabbed her with a knife at her left again facet which resulted to her dying.
He stated the offence was opposite to and punishable underneath Sections 316 and 319 of the Criminal Code, Cap. 37, Vol. 1, Laws of Ondo State of Nigeria, 2006.
Plea of the defendant was not taken however the prosecution made an oral utility to remand the defendant in jail custody pending the end result of recommendation from Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP).
In his ruling, Magistrate Damilola Sekoni, ordered the remand Rebecca to police custody and adjourned the case to February 22, 2022 for ruling on the remand utility
