Magistrates’ Court sitting in the Yaba area of Lagos has acquitted and discharged a 15-year-old girl accused of murdering her father’s 51-year-old friend who tried to rape her

Magistrate Philip Ojo struck out the murder charge filed by the police against the Senior Secondary School (SSS) 3 student, following an advice from the office of the Lagos State Directorate of Public Prosecution (DPP).

On March 24, the State Criminal Intelligence and Investigation Department (SCIID) had alleged that the teenager stabbed Mr Babatunde Ishola to death on March 7, 2020.

The incident occurred in his home located at Nwadolu Street, Aboru, Lagos.

Ishola was said to be employed as a guard at a school in the community and lived alone.

The police said the girl’s act contravened Section 225 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State, Nigeria, 2015.

It obtained an order for the student to be remanded at the Lagos State Correctional Home for Girls, Idi Araba while the case was adjourned for the legal advice from the DPP.

The teenager was represented pro bono by the Lagos State Office of the Public Defender (OPD).

At the proceedings today, Magistrate Ojo said the court had received the DPP’s report. He said the report corroborated the facts of the matter as set out in the case file, that that there were “insufficient facts to establish a prima facie case of murder against the suspect.”
The magistrate then acquitted and discharged the minor.

The Director of the OPD, Dr. Jide Martins expressed satisfaction with the verdict. He said that “the professionalism, diligence and timely advice of the DPP on the matter made it possible for the girl to be released, because no prima facie case was established against her.”

“I appeal to anyone that has suffered any form of rights denial, abuse and violence to visit any of the OPD office nearest to him or her for free legal service,” Martins added.

The teenager’s parents who also spoke after the judgment, thanked the Lagos state government and OPD for coming to their rescue with free legal services

https://www.channelstv.com/2020/06/10/court-frees-girl-accused-of-murdering-51-year-old-man-who-attempted-to-rape-her/

That's good

Time is ticking

I don't believe this news..
The Family may have bribed the judge, lawyers and policemen handling the case.
No wonder they used the word RAPE, to gain public sympathy(We are in the period of rape).
Only God knows..
May God Help and Save us.

Self defense is not a crime. I won't sit down and watch you harm me when I can defend myself.

When faced with two evils, choose the lesser evil. The gurl killing the man is the lesser evil. I commend her effort, instead of just lying there sheepishly..

It's time we allowed our female go for karate/kungfu/taekwondo lessons...

Na only God know what transpired between them.

Hmm. This is serious.

I can image what the girl must have been going through.



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Nice gesture

Mehhhnn!
Only God has more wisdom behind why i haven't become a president in this goddehm' country

You rape, you get castrated one time!!

That's the rule, mahhn!

SuicideInMyMind:
Time is ticking

Seun!
Would you come to an aid of this depressed niggarrr?

but, how sure are we dt he actually tried to rape her? them say person wey die, na em matter worse pass, cos em nogo fit do anything again

Only God knows the truth.

I believe there will be more than two sides to this story.

They should get ready for more stabbing and claims of sexual harrassment as the reason.


Whites are better judges because they reason better.


Even if u release her must not be straight away or published straight away..



That is not how they do it, otherwise she will kill again at the slightest sense of being offended.



She has now taken a life and that makes it easier for her to do it again.

Good

Very bad

Babatunde

The judgment would have been apt if the girl was actually raped...

Thank God an innocent girl won't have to suffer for the irresponsibly of an old man who couldn't keep his thing to himself.

It was in self defence

Kangaroo court

The girl is already a Gangster and might be recruited into one of these cults if she is not taken far away; also in saner climes the government will have to rehabilitate the girl. Despite being set free ,she will live a lifetime of trauma.

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