FCT High Court on Monday sentenced Maryam Sanda, the woman who stabbed her husband to death, Bilyaminu, son of a former national chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Haliru Bello, to death by hanging.
Delivering judgment, Justice Yusuf Halilu, convicted her on
circumstantial evidence.
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The killing was premeditated, the police said.
The police accused Sanda of stabbing her husband with a
broken bottle at about 3:50 a.m. on Nov. 18, 2017
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.