Maryam Sanda, accused of killing her husband, Bilyamin Mohammed Bello, has been sentenced to death by hanging.
She was found guilty by a Federal Capital Territory (FCT) High Court on Monday.
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Delivering the judgment, Justice Yusuf Halilu, held that there was circumstantial evidence coupled with her testimony and statement to the police that she “fatally” stabbed her husband to death in Abuja on November 19, 2017.
He ordered that she should be remanded in Suleja prison till she exhausts her right of appeal.
Sanda, the mother of two, her mother and other relatives broke down in tears immediately the judge pronounced the judgment. Her mother, who was occupying a back seat, sped out of the court as she wept.
Bello, nephew of Haliru Mohammed Bello, a former national chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), was killed in November, 2017.
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