A Federal Capital Territory (FCT) High Court sitting in the Wuse Zone 2 area of Abuja on Monday, April 28, 2025, sentenced the husband of late gospel singer, Osinachi, Peter Nwachukwu, to death by hanging.
Nwachukwu was found guilty of culpable homicide resulting in the death of his wife on April 8, 2022.
The presiding judge, Justice Nwosu-Iheme, held that the prosecution had proven the burden of proof placed on it by the law and subsequently found the singer’s husband guilty.
Nwachukwu was arraigned on June 3, 2022 by the Office of Attorney-General of the Federation (OAGF), on behalf of the Federal Government, on a 23-count charge .
The charge was on culpable homicide punishable with death, criminal intimidation, cruelty to children, criminal intimidation of children, and spousal battery, among others.
In the course of trial, the prosecution called 17 witnesses, including two children of the late singer.
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The prosecution also tendered 25 documents as exhibits before the court.
The defendant testified for the defence and further called four other witnesses and tendered four exhibits in his defence.
Shortly before sentencing, the defence counsel, Reginald Nwali, in his allocutus pleaded with the court to be lenient in its judgement.
Similarly, the prosecution counsel, Aderonke Imala, urged the court to give force to the law as stipulated.
The defendant testified for the defence and further called four other witnesses and tendered four exhibits in his defence.
Shortly before sentencing, the defence counsel, Reginald Nwali, in his allocutus pleaded with the court to be lenient in its judgement.
Similarly, the prosecution counsel, Aderonke Imala, urged the court to give force to the law as stipulated.
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