3PLR – CHRISTIANA UGU V. ANDREW EBINNI TABI
MADAM CHRISTIANA UGU V. ANDREW EBINNI TABI IN THE
MURDER CASES CONNECTED WITH CHILDREN AND WOMEN IN NIGERIA-2
CHILDREN AND WOMEN LAW & POLICY REPORTS WITH SUPPORT FROM AFRICAN MOTHERHOOD INITIATIVES
INDEX TO FATAL ACCIDENT CASES CONNECTED TO NIGERIAN CHILDREN AND WOMEN
| TITLE | MAIN ISSUES |
| BALI V. QUEEN | Marriage and Crimes of Jealousy – Remarriage – Former husband of woman killed by current husband on suspicion of having sexual designs on wife – Whether jealous rage based on suspicion of deceased’s intention to have carnal relation with wife amounts to provocation to nullify a conviction for premeditated murder |
| BASSEY V. QUEEN | Women and murder – Women and customary law – Killing of mother-in-law – Customary law practices giving mother a right to give married daughter in marriage to another man because her husband went on a sojourn |
| BEDDER V DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC PROSECUTIONS | Women and Murder/Prostitution – Killing of a prostitute for jeering and assaulting a sexually impotent man – Whether jeering and assault as described amounted to provocation |
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Women and substance/drug abuse – Death arising from a moment of mutual drunkenness – Wife-killing via a revolver shot by husband – Dying declaration of wife designed to protect husband and testimony of husband asserting accident – Where upstaged by conflicting circumstantial evidence – Duty of court thereto to consider both murder and manslaughter – Effect of considering murder alone |
| BENSON UKWUNNENYI V STATE | Security in the society – Murder of man as retaliation |
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Women and Justice Administration – Woman/Mother standing trial for murder of adopted son (a soldier) by stabbing – Plea of self-defence – Claim that woman stabbed son for trying to choke her to death – How treated |
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Women and Customary Law/Justice Administration – Killing of prospective bride – Suspicions of infidelity and humiliation– Failure to recover bride price – Expectations between couple who by native law and custom are not yet man and wife as the forms of marriage had not been completed – Whether there is a position under which the law affords a protection to a husband who killed his wife or her paramour in such circumstances |
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Women and pregnancy – Safety of unborn children – Nervous shock caused to a pregnant wife who was eye-witness to fatal road accident – Action brought to recover from estate of driver-at-fault for alleged injury and stillbirth of child – How treated |
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Women and Murder – Wife-Killing – Family with three children including a baby went to sleep together – Neighbours found wife murdered in the morning with husband’s axe – How treated |
| BROWNSON ETUK UDO v. THE QUEEN | Wife Killing – Assault causing neck injuries – Initial well-meant but misguided attempt by husband to self-treat wife using local remedies resulting in further harm – Death after admission in hospital – Whether circumstances disclosed murder or manslaughter – How treated |
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Women and Justice administration – Unresolved dispute over land – Brutal murder of a woman for ‘failing’ to prevent a third party interfering with killer’s land – Whether justifies killing |
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Wife-Killing – Women and justice administration – Husband prosecuted for culpable homicide of wife on the farm – Defence of accident that wife died from blow of a broken branch on the head – How treated – Effect of inadequate investigation and prosecution |
| DASI V STATE | Murder of a 12 year old with a sword – Death from loss of blood and shock – Evidence of mother and a 6 year old school – How treated |
| DAWA V THE STATE | Women and Security – Woman whose husband was brutally murdered after she fortuitously left room to attend to grandchild – How treated – Women and Justice Administration – Spouses of persons suspected of crime of murder – Attempt to use wife’s pregnancy and birth-delivery as alibi – Effect of wife’s heroic effort at telling the truth |
| DICKSON AIGHOBAHI V. THE STATE | Murder –Matricide – Dastardly killing of mother with aggravated violence – Attitude of Supreme Court thereto |
| DICKSON ARISA V THE STATE | Murder – Man shot and killed kinsman whom he accused of having an affair with his wife |
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Murder by stabbing with pen-knife – Defence of women from physical threat – Two women travelling with deceased had alleged that appellant had threatened them with the knife – Death resulting from deceased’s attempt to secure knife from appellant |
| EGBE NKANU V. THE STATE | Women and Security/Murder – Murder/Head-severance of 60 year old grandmother by her neighbor – Women and Justice Administration – Attempt to set up the defence of insanity and intoxication as defence for gruesome murder- How treated |
| EKPO V ASUQUO | Children and murder – Murder of a customs officer at the Creek – Child on location of murder |
| ELEIHE V QUEEN | Women and Murder – Murder motivated by alleged adultery between deceased and wife of accused person – Deceased and accused were friends and married with children – Effect of adultery on marriages, friendship, wellbeing of families, criminality and justice administration |
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ELUJI KINGSLEY EZE v. THE STATE
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Third-party murder of father/husband after inflicting bodily wounds on wife and child – Prosecution of assailant and relevant considerations |
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Women and Adultery – Murder by matchete – Married woman murdered by third party sex partner she kept with consent of her husband – Whether sexual relations with a fourth man and alleged theft of £15 by woman amount to provocation at law – Effect of sexual preferences/family practices on criminality |
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Child killed by grandmother for juju rituals – Extra-judicial killing done on the instructions of her ‘mates in witch-craft’ – Whether mental infirmity suffered by grandmother amounts to legal insanity or lack of capacity to plead – How treated |
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Wife-killing – Women in business – Nursing mothers and workplace demands – Farming as Family business – Husband with mother, wife and children (including baby) went farming – Wife delegated by Husband to harvest barn a mile away – Baby starts crying while mother’s away and husband goes to fetch wife – Husband found later (by his mother and daughter) cleaning out his matchete with dead wife nearby – Effect of mother’s refusal to give positively indicting evidence against her son over the killing of wife – Daughter’s testimony against her father – How treated by Court |
| ESSIEN V STATE | Children and Murder – Murder via gunshot – Evidence of a 7 old girl-child – Weight accorded same by court – Effect on entire case |
| EZEA v. QUEEN | Women and Murder – Killing of a person responding to the distress call of a woman/neighbor – Security of neighbourhoods in rural areas – Emergency situations and 1st responders options in rural areas |
| EZEKIEL ADEKUNLE V. THE STATE | Protection of women – Aged woman accused of witchcraft murdered by mob |
| GABRIEL V THE STATE | Domestic Violence – Uxoricide (Wife-Killing) – Murder of wife by own husband |
| GAJI V. THE STATE | Women and Crime/Murder – Death of girl resulting from intense beating by the accused – How treated |
| GRACE AKINFE v THE STATE | Women and Violence – Woman accused of murder of pregnant senior mate |
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Children and Murder – Young People and Justice Administration – Murder of a two year old by a mentally troubled step-brother – Young person under 17 and capital offences – Whether entitled to have death sentence commuted to imprisonment at the pleasure of the Governor – Age of a person standing trial for crime – Need to determine same for conviction and sentencing purposes |
| GWANDU V GWANDU N. A. | Women and Murder – Woman killed by a heavy mortar thrown on her head died many hours later with blood coming out of her ears, nose and mouth – Killer’s death sentence commuted to life imprisonment due to a technical error in the trial |
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Women and Justice Administration/Crime – Security of women and family life – Murder of a woman/wife for crying over the extra-judicial killing of her two brothers by a cult-group – Act perpetrated by a local society (Odozi-Obodo) dedicated to punishing alleged thieves and their relatives who cry on their behalf – Husband of woman who was threatened with death if he did not send wife on an errand where she would be killed – Attitude of courts thereto |
| IDIRISU V. THE STATE | Women and Murder – Women and Security of Neighbourhood – Rampaging murderer who killed 2 women and 1 man in one village in one night – How treated |
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IGBO V. THE STATE
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Children and Security/Murder –An unattended 10 year old boy grievously assaulted at a Cinema after seeing a late night movie ending at 11.00pm – Children and healthcare – Seriously injured boy refused admission and intensive care at a private hospital – Death from internal injury – Women in Business – Mother of 10 year old carrying on business into the late night to support family upkeep |
| IGHO V. THE STATE | Women and Security/Murder – Young woman who went for a religious service found dead – Women and Justice Administration – Use of circumstantial evidence in bringing a murderer to justice |
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IHIMIRE V. THE STATE
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Provocation within the purview of Section 256 of the Criminal Code, Laws of the Western Region of Nigeria 1959, applicable in the Mid-West and identical to provisions of Section 318 of the Criminal Code, Laws of the Federation of Nigeria and Lagos 1958 – Whether requires evidence of all the three elements of provocation |
| IHONRE V. THE STATE | Children/Women and Murder/Justice Administration/Religion/Witchcraft – Murder of grandmother and grand children by accused person due to a belief in witchcraft – How treated by court |
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Women and Security/Murder – Wife-killing – Children and Security of Family life – Little child who was with mother at time of her killing by father – Subsequent incarceration of father on death row and implication for child – Orphans – Children & Healthcare – Access to healthcare for children – Illness of child and relocation of mother with child to parents home to seek treatment – Death of mother arising therefrom – How treated |
| IMASUEN V. THE STATE | Human right – Murder – Brutal murder of a 9 year old – Grievously assaulted, raped and set ablaze – Security of children and the neighbourhood |
| INIJE V. THE STATE | Women and Security – Wife-killing – Domestic violence – Gruesome death of pregnant wife from seven matchet cut wounds – How treated |
| IROMACHI v. QUEEN | Girl child and Murder – Women and Education – Desire of mother for her daughter conflicting with the desire of her marriage suitors – Subsequent murder of girl – Accusation that she was strangulated to death by spurned suitor – How treated |
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Women and children – Right to Life – Murder – Gruesome killing of a mother with a machete with her little child as witness – Security of homes and family life – Failure of prosecution to call child as witness – Whether fatal to case based on circumstantial evidence – How treated |
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