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24-year-old pregnant woman, Funke Jamiu was on Thursday remanded in
Kirikiri prisons by an Ejigbo Magistrates’ Court, Lagos for biting off a
chunk of her co-tenant’s breast during a squabble.
According
to the police prosecutor, Cpl. Oluwafemi Adeleye, the accused on
November 4 bite off one Bola Ajiboye’s breast during a fight.
Adeleye
told the court that Jamiu, a housewife, reportedly committed the
offence at No. 17, Awolo St., Isheri-Osun, Ijagemo, Lagos.
He
said, “The defendant, who confessed to have committed the act, did not
only inflict her co-tenant with bruises but also used her fingers and
her teeth to cut off part of Ajiboye’s breast.”
The offence, according to him, contravened section 24 of the Criminal Code, Laws of Lagos State, 2011.
The
prosecutor said that fight broke out between the duo when the accused
claimed that there was an unfavourable rumour being spread about her by
the victim.
”The
other neighbours in the compound, however, involved the police, when
the situation became uncontrollable,’’ the prosecutor said.
The
magistrate, Mrs. M.B. Folami, ordered Jamiu to be remanded in prisons
when she pleaded guilty to the one count charge, and adjourned the case
till November 23 for fact and proper sentence.
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