For killing his wife and her son, a 40 years old man, Bangos Adamu, is to die by hanging.
The sentence was delivered, on Monday, by a Yola High Court, presided over by Justice Fatimah Ahmed Tafida who found the accused guilty as charged by the state.
While delivering her judgment, the Judge held that the prosecution proved beyond all reasonable doubt that Bangos, was guilty of the two-count charge preferred against him by the prosecution and convicted him as charged.
The convict, who hails from Janjaba village in Gombi Local Government Area of Adamawa State, was found guilty of killing his wife, Regina Bangos, and her child, Revelation James.
The convict, who is a farmer pleaded guilty to the charge of murder brought against him for killing his wife by hitting her with an axe on the head and hacking her son with a cutlass which led to their untimely death.
Bangos Adamu had in his confessional statement, told the court that he married his late wife after she was divorced by her former husband, adding that she came to his house with a child she bore for her former husband.
He further informed the court that anytime they had a misunderstanding, the deceased would be complaining and threatening to return to her former husband, and that her seven-year-old son was always supporting his mother’s decision to return to his father, her erstwhile husband.
According to him, they were together at home on June 15, 2021, when she asked him to give her grains in order to prepare food for them, and that he simply replied by telling her to go to the kitchen and get it.
He added that his wife refused to go to the kitchen to fetch the grains, instead, demanded that he should buy bread for them to eat and leave the grains to be used the following day.
He further narrated that he refused to buy the bread and that as soon as he responded that he was not going to buy the bread, she started grumbling to the extent of telling him that it is better for her to return to her former husband’s house.
He added that her response made him angry and started nursing grudges against her and the son because of his support, saying that when all of them retired to bed in the night of that fateful day, he woke up, armed himself with axe and cutlass and hit her three times on the head.
He further confessed that while she was struggling to give up the ghost, he used his cutlass and hacked the little boy to death.
“Realising what I have done, I fled the scene of the tragic incident and reported myself to the Chairman Local Hunters Association who arrested me and handed me over to the police in Gombi LGA,” he added.
In their reactions shortly after the judgement, the prosecution counsel, A.A.Babakano, and that of the convict, F. A. Ogbe, thanked the court for the judgement.
