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Home | Lagos Couple Bag 16 Years Imprisonment Over Maid’s Death

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Lagos Couple Bag 16 Years Imprisonment Over Maid’s Death

Tapre Timine
Tapre Timine
Published: June 3, 2025
Last updated: June 3, 2025
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Lagos State High Court, on Thursday, sentenced a couple, Fortune and Steve Nwankwo, to 16 years imprisonment for the involuntary manslaughter of their 19-year-old maid, Joy Adole.

Justice Oyindamola Ogala of the High Court in Ikeja found the couple guilty of conspiracy and manslaughter.

While passing judgment in suit no ID/13178C/20, Justice Ogala explained that the prosecution had proved the charge of manslaughter, conspiracy, and attempt to pervert justice and misconduct as regards the death of their maid in their house at Bariga, Lagos State.

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The court convicted Stephen of the charges of conspiracy, deal to pervert justice, misconduct, and accessory after the fact of a felony.

The judge told the court that the testimonies of the prosecution witnesses were not only strong but also affirmed the fact that the housemaid died due to the beating by Fortune (first defendant).

“The first defendant beat the deceased which caused her death as she had not been feeling well prior to the incident.

“The defendants did not inform or call the family of the deceased from 5 am when they found out she had died until noon when the second defendant called the sister of the deceased and asked for her full name and other personal information so as to enable them to embalm her in the morgue.

“The second defendant, having found out that the first defendant had killed the deceased due to the beating, assisted her in perverting the course of justice by hanging the body with a rope.

“There were three adults in the house: the defendants and the housemaid. The defendants were the last two adults that got in contact with the housemaid before her death.

The hanging was staged, the deceased was hanged by a rope and the position the police found her body did not depict suicide as her feet were on the floor,” she said.

Ogala also confirmed that the defendants tampered with evidence when they embalmed the body, which made it difficult for the toxicologist to carry out an autopsy.

Fortune bagged 14 years in jail, while Steve, had two years imprisonment.

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