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MURDER CASES CONNECTED WITH CHILDREN AND WOMEN IN NIGERIA – 4
CHILDREN AND WOMEN LAW & POLICY CENTER WITH SUPPORT FROM AFRICAN MOTHERHOOD INITIATIVES
INDEX TO MURDER CASES CONNECTED TO NIGERIAN CHILDREN AND WOMEN
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Widowhood – Women and Security – Wife whose husband was killed by cult group so that she can be ‘given’ to a member of the cult – Criminal assault on individuals, families and communities – Failure of proactive law enforcement – Effect – Attitude of Court thereto |
| OBODO V THE QUEEN | Women and Security- Murder of wife of dreaded secret society Chief – Killing committed directly by the chief after his underlings refused to obey his directives to kill the wife in deference to him – Deceased accused of poisoning her step-child to death – Failure of proactive law enforcement – Attitude of court generally |
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Young people – Security and Human Rights – Healthcare – Child Murder – Grievous assault leading to death of a 13 year old – Access to timely and quality healthcare – Evidence of an eye-witness who is a legal minor – Treatment by court |
| OBUMSELU V COMMISSIONER OF POLICE | Women and Healthcare – Unlawful Abortion-Related death of pregnant young university female – Assault designed to get rid of baby bringing about death of deceased – Liability of boyfriend whose room was used for the act |
| OFOHA V. THE STATE | Women in Business/Farming – Murder of woman in her farm by co-wife – How treated |
| OGHARU V THE QUEEN | Children and Security of neighbourhood – Law enforcement – Lynching – Murder of person who kidnapped and sold a child – Prosecution of young persons who carried out killing as ordered by community’s council of elders – Relevant considerations – Attitude of court to private citizens taken the law into their hands to punish child trafficking |
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Women and Murder/Domestic Violence – Children and Murder – Soldier-husband accused of killing wife and eleven month old son – How treated |
| OHAMUO V. THE STATE | Access to water in rural community and implications for security of lives and justice administration – Murder of girl-child who went to fetch water by a person with disorder of thought – How treated |
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Women and Security/Murder – Murder of Newborn mother – Women and Justice Administration – Acquittal of accused murderer because of poor investigative practices |
| OJEGELE V. THE STATE | Murder – Fratricide [killing of one’s brother] – safety of person with hunch-back due to superstitious beliefs |
| OJO V. THE STATE | Unlawful killing of mother by her son |
| OJOJO V THE STATE | Murder – Brutal murder of woman with a machete – How treated |
| OKARA V STATE | Children and murder – Age at commission of crime |
| OKON ETIM AKPAN v. THE STATE | Murder charge – Husband as accused person – Evidence of estranged wife against accused |
| OLADAPO V. THE STATE | Constitutional and Human rights- Security of lives – Guesome murder of woman for ritual purposes – How proved – Attitude of court thereof |
| OMOGHENE AJARIA V THE QUEEN | Women in Business – Women and Security – Murder – Four women fishing attacked by a male assailant who they had refused to give fish to with one killed – Security of rural women at work – How treated |
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Women – Murder of pregnant woman by lover – Incest – Superstition – Whether belief that incest was cause of wife’s childlessness amounts to provocation at law |
| ORISAKWE V STATE | Young people and Justice Administration – Criminal proceedings – Murder – Where accused alleged to be a 14 year old school boy – How proved – Registry of birth and death – Physical examination to determine chronological age – X-ray – How treated – Implications for justice administration |
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Women and Justice Administration – Young woman who died after group-sex during which alcohol and drug was consumed –Respiratory depression as cause of death – Failure of prosecution to prove relevant elements necessary to sustain a charge of murder – Effect |
| OSUGO V THE QUEEN | Women/Children and Murder – Women/Children as Indirect victims of crime – Mothers and children – Mother whose son committed murder – Deposition of mother, who had died before the trial as vital evidence for the prosecution – Evidence of a schoolboy aged about nine regarding the matchete used for the killing – Legal and traumatic effects |
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Women/Children and Security – Murder of Baby – Refusal of mother to put baby down on the directive of assailant who wanted to kill mother – Verbal abuse of assailant by mother – Whether constitutes defence of provocation at law |
| OZANA UBIERHO V THE STATE | Security of Women with disabilities – Young People in Crime – Gruesome murder of a hunchback mother by young boys for ritual purposes – minors and criminal conviction – 14 year old as accused person after alleged collaborators died in prison or were subsequently released on no case submission – Effect of age of convict on sentencing proceedings for capital crimes – How treated |
| SUNDAY ASUMOGHA v. THE STATE | MURDER: – Young persons – Training for economic empowerment – Apprenticeship – Murder arising from disputes relating to terms of settlement for completed period of apprenticeship – How treated |
| SUNDAY MODUPE v. THE STATE | Children and Crime – Accused was less than 17 years old at the time of commission of the murder of which he was convicted and sentenced |
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Women and Healthcare – Women and abortion – Abortion procured by husband of deceased woman to terminate pregnancy arising from her adultery – Unlawful and felonious killing arising therefrom – Relevant considerations |
| UDO V. THE STATE | Women/Children and Security/Dispute Resolution – Gruesome assault and murder of mother and her children due to wage related disputes directly unconnected with them |
| UDO AKPAN UDOFIA V. THE STATE | Women/Children and Justice Administration – Matricide (Mother-Killing) – Murder trial attracting death penalty – Assignment of the responsibility of such defence of a son accused of the heinous crime of murdering mother to a fresh (NYSC) lawyer and to a reluctant private practitioner – Failure to provide effective defence – Attitude of court thereto – How conviction by trial court treated on appeal |
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Wife-Killing – Murder of wife following death of child – Wife alleged to have been carrying on adulterous relations and verbally abusing the husband – Whether husband’s belief that wife’s conduct brought about death of child plus verbal abuses amounted to provocation |
| UDOFA V. THE KING | Women and Healthcare Options – Murder – Unlawful abortion leading to death of woman – Access to primary and pre-natal care – Procurement of abortion through abortificient concoction prepared by a herbalist – Access to primary and pre-natal care |
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Women and Security/Murder – Women murdered by her soldier-boyfriend due to mental breakdown – Women and Heroism – Wife whose dexterous use of gun helped demobilize an armed and mentally unstable soldier set on killing her husband and others– Implications for security and justice administration |
| UFOT MKPA ALIAS MBOSO MKPA V. THE STATE | Women and Security – Murder – Matricide – Accused decapitating head of his mother while she was asleep – How treated |
| UGBO V THE QUEEN | Security of homestead and neighbor – A man killed by third party while he was lying down outside his house with wife and baby – Attitude of court thereto |
| UGWU V QUEEN | Widow – Women and Murder – Women and justice administration – Murder of husband by 3rd party– Role of woman in securing investigation of husband death and as prosecution witness – How treated |
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Wife killing – 4 month pregnant woman killed by own husband after her father took her to the mother of another prospective but absent husband – Whether desertion of husband to secure a second arranged marriage amounts to provocation– How treated |
| UMESI V QUEEN | Women and Murder – Woman killed by lover – Whether verbal/physical abuse and neglect amount to provocation at law – Relevant considerations |
| UMOREN V THE QUEEN | Deceased woman murdered for allegedly insulting and spitting on the appellant – Whether sufficient provocation |
| UMUNNA V QUEEN | Women and Marriage – Unhappy marriages and customary methods of resolving quarrels between couples – Wife murdered by husband with about 10 blows of the machete – Whether running away or denying sex to husband amounted to provocation – Practice of summoning the police to a woman bleeding to death instead of emergency services – absence of emergency medical services |
| UPETIRE V A.G. WESTERN NIGERIA | Women and Murder – Women and Education of children – Murder of woman’s 2 children by relative peeved at not being given money to marry as requested from mother of children |
| URAKU V. THE STATE | Women and Justice administration – Woman killed by brother over a loan repayment dispute– How treated |
| USAN V. THE STATE | Women and Justice Administration – Wife-killing – Wife murdered by husband for failing to satisfy his sexual desires – Jurisdictional issues and criminal trial |
| USMAN MAIGARI V. THE STATE | Murder – Wife-Killing by strangulation for ritual purposes – Concealment of the whereabouts of corpse for a long time – How treated |
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Murder of a 15 year old girl – Whether claim by accused that father of deceased had a habit of chasing him with a machete because he is a leper amounted to provocation at law |
| UWA V THE STATE | Murder and Minors – Age of a young person convicted for murder – Need to satisfy court that accused is not minor – On whom the burden lies – Where doubt exist – Effect of failure to satisfy court thereof |
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Children and Customary Law – Twin-killing – Killing of twin babies by father – Customary abhorrence of twins – Participation of women and general community – Whether an acceptable defence – Attitude of court |
| VICTOR ONYEMAECHI OKOH V. THE STATE | Wife-killing – Circumstantial evidential evidence – How proved |
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Wife-Killing – Women and Customary Law – Return of bride price on leaving husband – Women and Justice administration – Mother of 4 children who had left husband to move in with another man ordered by local court to return to 1st husband as current lover was unable to pay back bride price – Woman’s throat slit on the night of the day she returned home – How treated |
| WILLIE V. THE STATE | Women and Murder – Women and witchcraft – Brutal murder of mother accused of witchcraft poisoning producing stomach-ache in her assailant/son – How treated |
| YANOR V THE STATE | Indirect victims of Crime – Murder of Tax collector – Son as witness while mobs set upon deceased clobbering him to death |
| YARA V THE QUEEN | Wife-killing – Murder – Appellant/husband strangulated wife to death for stealing his yam – Whether third party who aided beating/burying of dead body but not strangulation is also guilty for murder |
| YAW NGOROH AND KWESI GYAN v THE KING | Women and Murder – Suitor of a woman together with an accomplice charged with the killing of a rival suitor – How treated |
| YESUFU V. THE STATE | Women and Security/Murder – Witchcraft cases – Elderly woman killed because of belief that she was responsible for negative misfortunes which befell her accuser – How treated |
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