An Igbosere High Court, Lagos State on Monday sentenced a cook, Janet James, to 14 years in prison for beating her eight-year-old brother, Saviour, to death for stealing meat from a pot of soup.<\/p>\n
Justice Adedayo Akintoye convicted Janet, 34, following her plea of guilty to an amended one-count of manslaughter.<\/p>\n
Akintoye said the sentence would take effect from August 21, 2009, when the Janet was first arraigned and remanded by a magistrates\u2019 court.<\/p>\n
Akintoye in her judgment, noted that the case was transferred to the high court in 2013 but on Monday, April 8, the defendant entered a plea bargain agreement with the prosecution<\/p>\n
She said that the defendant, however, changed her plea to a plea of guilty to the amended charge of manslaughter.<\/p>\n
She said: \u201cThe sentence and plea bargain agreement states that the defendant has shown remorse for the offence of manslaughter committed on August 10, 2009, against the person of one Saviour.<\/p>\n
\u201cOthers are that the defendant pleads guilty to the offence as charged, the defendant gives an undertaking to be of good behaviour, upon the completion of the jail term.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn view of this, therefore, the defendant, Janet James, is hereby found guilty of manslaughter and is accordingly convicted of same.<\/p>\n
\u201cI have taken into consideration that this is a 2013 case. I have also been guided by the plea and sentencing agreement entered into by the prosecution and the defendant.<\/p>\n
\u201cI note also the fact that the defendant has been in remand custody for many years. As a result, therefore, the defendant is hereby sentenced to a term of 14 years.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe term of imprisonment is to run from the date of remand, which is August 21st 2009. This is the judgment of the court.\u201d<\/p>\n
The\u00a0News Agency of Nigeria<\/em>\u00a0reports that Janet was re-arraigned at the high court in 2013, on a one-count of murder.<\/p>\n She pleaded not guilty to the charge.<\/p>\n The Prosecution counsel, Mrs Abiola Gbadamosi, told the court that Janet committed the offence at 8 p.m, on August 10, 2009, in the Ilupeju area of Lagos State.<\/p>\n Gbadamosi said the convict killed Saviour by beating him with a turning stick after accusing him of stealing meat from a pot of soup.<\/p>\n She then dumped his body in the premises of an insurance company in Ilupeju.<\/p>\n She said the offence contravened the provisions of Section 317 of the Criminal Code, Laws of Lagos State 2003.<\/p>\n (NAN)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" An Igbosere High Court, Lagos State on Monday sentenced a cook, Janet James, to 14 years in prison for beating her eight-year-old brother, Saviour, to death for stealing meat from a pot of soup. Justice Adedayo Akintoye convicted Janet, 34, following her plea of guilty to an amended one-count of manslaughter. Akintoye said the sentence […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":513,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,2],"tags":[2317,84,460],"class_list":["post-3389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-metro","category-news","tag-cook","tag-death","tag-jail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3389"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3389"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3389\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3390,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3389\/revisions\/3390"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}