Maryam Sanda, the woman accused of allegedly stabbing her husband to death, Bilyaminu Bello, the son of a former national chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Haliru Bello, have been sentenced to death by hanging by an FCT High Court.
Justice Yusuf Halilu, who delivered the judgement convicted Sanda of circumstantial evidence. He said available evidence proved that the accused stabbed her husband with a kitchen knife with intent to kill.
Justice Halilu dismissed convicted Sanda’s statement that her husband fell on a broken Shisha pot during a fight on the ill-fated day as a “smokescreen to deceive the court”.
The police accused Sanda of stabbing her husband with a broken bottle at about 3:50 a.m. on Nov. 18, 2017.
The killing was premeditated, the police said.
The police also accused Maimuna Aliyu, Sanda’s mother; Aliyu, her brother, and Sadiya Aminu, her housemaid, of tampering with evidence by cleaning the blood and other proofs from the crime scene, but charges were later dropped.
