A Lagos High Court in Ikeja on Monday sentenced27 yearsold Mrs. Chiamaka Nnajiofor to 10 years imprisonment for flogging her house maid to death.
The court commuted the murder charge preferred against the woman to manslaughter, while it discharged and acquitted her 41-year-old husband, Elochukwu Nnajiofor.
They had both pleaded not guilty to the murder charge preferred against them by the Lagos State Directorate of Public Prosecution.
Justice Lateefat Okunnu, in her judgment on Monday, ruled that Chiamakas sentence wouldcommence from the day she was arraigned along with her husband on September 22, 2011.
The couple was charged with murder for beating their 14-year-old houseboy, Oliver Arakwe, to death on August 17, 2010.
The incident was said to have occurred at the couples residence at 81, Femi Tella Street, Ago Palace Way, Okota, Lagos……
