The Acre Chief Magistrate’s Court last weekend ordered 18-year-old Topemomo to be remanded in custody on suspicion of strangling his 52-year-old mother Stella Momo.
This was announced by police prosecutor Nelson Akinthaimhin
what the defendant was charged with
murder.
According to Akintimehin, the accused
committed a crime in the middle of the night
September 6, 2022, at Ikakumia
Ondo state.
he informed the court that Tope was strangled
his mother died on the way
The night I called him a bastard. He said the defendant confessed to being responsible for his mother’s death two weeks after her funeral. Prosecutors said the cause of the incident was
Victim’s death was not instantaneous
known when she died to her son
She admitted being the culprit.
She said in her confession, Tope told her relatives that she choked her mother to death when she woke her in the middle of the night, showered her with curses, and called her a bastard many times. She said she had to say it.”
Prosecutors said the crimes were inconsistent
§ 319 paragraph 1 StGB, chap. 37,
Vol. II Ondo Law, 2006.
Defendant argued in court that:
“I haven’t had peace since her mother was buried, so I had to confess to suffocating her. So I hope the court will show me mercy. “
But the prosecutor asked the court.
detain the defendant in a correctional institution,
until the outcome of the deliberation
Director General of the Public Prosecutor’s Office (DPP).
Defendant’s petition was not taken as chief
Musa Al-Yunnus, Magistrate of the Peace,
Pre-trial detention at Orokta Correctional Center.
Al-Yunnus therefore postponed the case
Decided on 20 October 2022.
