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 – 3
CHILDREN AND WOMEN LAW & POLICY REPORTS WITH SUPPORT FROM AFRICAN MOTHERHOOD INITIATIVES
INDEX TO FATAL ACCIDENT CASES CONNECTED TO NIGERIAN CHILDREN AND WOMEN
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| IYU V THE STATE | Widow – Women and Murder – Indirect victims of violent crimes – Wife as witness in murder-trial of deceased husband – How treated |
| JEREMIAH EGBOMA V. THE STATE | Women – Murder – Deceased person’s sister as eye witness and lead witness – Security of lives, family and neighbourhoods – Direct and indirect victims of crime – How treated |
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Security and Women – Murder on the highway – Women and traumatic murder experience committed by Police officer – Women as heroic reporters of murder committed by police officer – Women as eye-witnesses to criminal proceedings |
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Women – Murder – Security of neighbourhood and family lives – Sister as witness to murder of deceased brother – Direct and indirect victims of crime |
| JOHN KHALIL KHAWAM (TRADING AS JOHN KHALIL KHAWAM & CO) Vs K CHELLARAM & SONS (NIG) LTD | Widows – Wife and children of deceased as eye-witnesses to his killing – Accused claims to have been provoked by death of his own son which a herbalist attributed to the deceased |
| JOHN MAKIN AND SARAH MAKIN, HIS WIFE V THE ATTORNEY-GENERAL FOR NEW SOUTH WALES | Babies and Justice Administration/Security – Serial baby killer – Different women entrusting babies to accused – Babies never accounted for – Corpses of babies found buried in residences of accused – Evidential issues of sustaining charge against accused |
| JOHNSON DANIA V. THE STATE | Women and Security – Wife-killing – Murder of wife by Husband while she slept at night – How treated |
| JOHNSON UTIE V. THE STATE | Women and Security of Life/Murder – Killing of Pregnant Beatrice in her father’s presence – whether third-party allegation that killer was responsible for girl’s pregnancy amounted to provocation in law – How treated |
| JOSEPH OSEMEH V. THE STATE | Women and Security of Life/Murder – Wife-killing – Cold and premeditated Murder – Husband shooting five month old bride to death for refusing to come back to him or sleep with him – Attitude of court thereto |
| KILLA V THE QUEEN | Children and Security/Healthcare/ Justice Administration – Child Murder – Herbalist who poisoned a 4 year old who refused to run his errand and also refused to administer an antidote despite the plea of boy’s parents – How treated |
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KIRARANGE V QUEEN
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Wife killing – Woman brutally killed by Husband on the farm with 8 year-old child as the only eye-witness – Children and traumatic experience – Whether alleged adultery on part of woman amounts to provocation at law – How treated |
| KOLAWOLE V THE QUEEN | Wife-Killing – Husband savagely attacked and murdered wife – Plea of insanity – Attitude of court thereto |
| KOPA V. THE STATE | Women and Security/Law Enforcement – Woman stabbed to death in home – Poor Police investigation/handling leading to discharge of accused person |
| KURE V. THE STATE | Safety of children – Murder of young girl and injury to another by insane man |
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Women and Murder – Husband’s insistence on forceful return of his wife to matrimonial results in killing of wife’s relative in whose house she had sought refuge – Husband hit relative on head with a stick and shot him with an arrow – Acquittal of husband – Relevant considerations |
| LATEEF SHOFOLAHAN V. THE STATE | Women in Politics – Murder – Assassination of woman/spouse of a leading politician (MKO Abiola) – Failure of prosecution to provide credible witnesses – Effect – Attitude of court thereto |
| LATIFU YUSUFU V THE STATE | Protection of women – Husband murders wife with matchet on the farm, children witness the event |
| LAWRENCE AGBAJE V THE REPUBLIC | Young people and justice administration – Sentencing for murder– Accused claiming to be less than 17 years – How treated – Effect |
| LAWRENCE OGUNO & ANOR. V. THE STATE | Family life – Murder in the Family – Two sons who killed their father with knife stabs and acid bath – Relevant considerations |
| LAYONU AND OTHERS. V. THE STATE | Women and Justice Administration/Crime – Murder – Son/husband-killing – Mother and wife as eye witnesses to the killing of son/husband – Eye witness evidence thereof – How treated by court |
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LEITH McDONALD RATTEN V. THE QUEEN
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Women and Security of Life – 8 month pregnant wife and mother of three children shot dead in her kitchen by husband – Justice administration – Voice identification by Emergency Services Operators – Whether ‘female’ voice can be identified over the phone – Admissibility considerations in criminal proceedings – How treated |
| LEYIMI V THE QUEEN | Women and Murder – Estranged lovers – Murder of relative who harbored wife after she left ran away from ‘husband’s’ home due to unresolved quarrel– Whether providing accommodation for wife and inability to secure wife’s return is evidence of provocation |
| MACKAM V THE QUEEN | Security of children – Brutal murder of young girl accused of witchcraft by allegedly causing her mother’s death via snake bite |
| MADUGBA V THE QUEEN | Children/Women and Murder in the Family – Children/Women as anonymous victims of crime committed by family member – Accused cut off deceased brother’s head killing him on the spot – How treated |
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Women/Children as victims of crime – Security of family lives – Sentencing after conviction for murder – Convicted person as a family man and sole breadwinner of the family – Whether compelling considerations during sentencing proceedings for murder attracting capital punishment |
| MAJOR HAMZA AL-MUSTAPHA V. THE STATE | Women in Politics – Spouses of national politicians – Murder and other complications of partisan politics in a developing democracy – Need for professionally-minded prosecutors handling murder cases of politically exposed persons. |
| MATTHEW ONAKPOYA V THE QUEEN | Girl-child and Security of Neighbourhood – Murder of a young girl by father’s recently discharged debtor – Security of rural families – How treated |
| MBIAM AND ANOR. V THE STATE | Women/Children and Murder – Motive for murder – Belief by father/accused that death of his was the result of adultery between his wife/child’s mother and deceased person – Oath to kill deceased person consequently – Whether admissible evidence |
| MICHAEL AIWORO V. THE STATE | Domestic Violence – Husband, with the aid of an axe, murders 6 month old son, mother and brother-in-law and left wife unconscious, supposing her to be dead also |
| MOKE V QUEEN | Children and Justice Administration – Murder arising from dastardly assault witnessed by two children – Identity parade for a child to pick out a killer – Propriety of depending on those evidence – Level of corroboration required – Attitude of court to state of mind of child witness– Effect and level of support offered to young people involved in criminal proceedings |
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Women and Witch-craft – Security of aged persons from extra-judicial killing – Murder – Woman aged 80 killed on the belief of having cast a spell on accused person’s wife leading to the wife’s death as a result of an infection caused by miscarriage – When trial court found that condition of deceased wife was bona fide attributed to witchcraft – How treated |
| MUSA V. THE STATE | Children – Murder – Poisoning of 3 children to death by a co-wife targeting her rival – Polygamous marriage/family relations – How treated by court |
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Women and Justice Administration – Homicide by throttling the neck– Seizing a person usually a woman by the throat, to quieten or prevent her cries, but without intention to kill or cause grievous bodily harm – Circumstances in which same will amount to manslaughter rather than murder – How treated |
| NNABU V THE QUEEN | Women and Murder – Lynching for suspected stealing – Women as indirect victim of crime – Women and Law enforcement – Activities of dreaded cult groups/gangs and effect of women – Deceased husband/son lynched by members of dreaded cult while on a visit to another to see an acquaintance – Acquaintance threatened into silence by cult members – Efforts of weeping mother and wife leads to a report and police investigation 6 months thereafter – Whether failure to find corpse of deceased exculpates his killers |
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Economic empowerment – Woman killed haggling over the purchase of a basket of palm fruits and struggling to retrieve her basket when refused – Healthcare – Woman with enlarged spleen due to chronic malaria killed almost immediately due to two blows landed on stomach |
| NWAGU V. THE STATE | Wife-Killing – Couple with 2 children – Where wife is physically bigger than husband – Claim that wife with a third party gave him poison, which did him harm; failed to give him some palm-oil to eat his yam with; held him by the neck, and also by his private part, tapping a knife in his mouth – Whether amounts to provocation for a single stab on the left side with pierced the lower lobe of the lung at wife’s back causing her death |
| NWIGBOKE V THE QUEEN | Women and Murder – Cult-group led killings – deceased accused inter alia of sleeping with wife of chief of a cult group who ordered his killing – Attitude of court thereof |
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Women and Justice Administration- Wife-murder – Husband/appellant afflicted with leprosy – Wife/deceased deserting him and their 10 children – Husband suing deceased in native court to return and ease burden of caring for himself and children – Court ordering wife to take care of children but to live apart from husband – Whether deceased’s desertion justifies waylaying and killing her |
| NWOGBAGA V THE QUEEN | Children and Security of family Life – Murder – Cult-group killing – Trauma of family members watching helplessly the unlawful abduction of their father/spouse/breadwinner who was subsequently brutally murdered – Failure of proactive Law Enforcement – Attitude of court thereto |
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Women in crime – Husband killing – Wife who dominated marriage – Kept a paramour who she committed adultery with in and out of her matrimonial home with the knowledge of her husband – Married a 15 year old for husband in hope of raising a family for the childless marriage – Finally accompanied husband to waterfront from where he never returned alive – Attempted to frame others for murder – How treated by court |
| NWOSISI V. THE STATE | Women and Security – Wife of person living with disabilities – Protection from assaults and unwanted advances of third party – Implication for justice administration |
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