Lady Stabs Man To Death For Touching Her Waist

CYRIACUS IZUEKWE

A 35-year old lady, Stella Olowofoyekun, has landed in trouble in Lagos after she allegedly stabbed her neighbour, Monday Bella, for playfully touching her waist and he died in the process.

P.M.EXPRESS reports that the incident happened at Mati Community on Snake Island, Apapa area of Lagos, where they reside.
She was arrested and charged for murder before the Yaba Magistrates Court which attracts life imprisonment if she is tried and found guilty before the Court.
Stella was brought before Court on Friday, remanded in a correctional centre for allegedly stabbing her neighbour, Bella, to death with a broken bottle.
Stella, who is a petty trader, is facing a count charge of murder but her plea was not taken. The Presiding Magistrate, Oluwatoyin Oghere, ordered that the defendant be kept at the Ikoyi Correctional Centre, Lagos, pending legal advice from the Lagos State Director of Public Prosecution (DPP). Oghere thereafter adjourned the case till March 24, 2020.
The Prosecutor, Sgt. Modupe Olaluwoye, had told the Court that the defendant committed the offence at about 11.30 pm at Mati Community, Snake Island, Apapa area of Lagos.
She said that the defendant had stabbed Bella to death with a broken bottle because he was playfully touching her. According to Olaluwoye, the deceased was touching the defendant on her waist, she kept telling him to stop but he refused. She told the Court that the situation escalated to a serious banter, which led to the defendant picking up a broken bottle and stabbing him on the neck. She said that other neighbours rushed the deceased to a hospital but he was confirmed dead on arrival.

It was gathered that the matter may be transferred to the High Court if the DPP reports finds her culpable and recommends her trial for the alleged offence.