- She is to be remanded at the Ondo State Juvenile Home, in Akure, pending advice from the office of the Directorate of Public Prosecutions, DPP.
A 15-year-old female student in Ondo State has been remanded in prison for stabbing her contemporary Habib Salau, aged 17, to death.
The suspect and the deceased are both students of Anglican Grammar School in Arigidi Akoko.
A Chief Magistrate in Ondo State, Olateju Odenusi-Fadeyi, ordered the remand of the suspect over the murder of Salau.
She is to be remanded at the Ondo State Juvenile Home, in Akure, pending advice from the office of the Directorate of Public Prosecutions, DPP.
The magistrate, however, did not take her plea.
The SS3 student, is standing trial for allegedly stabbing the 17-year old deceased, Habib Salau, with a knife during a brawl between them after school hours.
The defendant was arraigned on a two-count charge of conspiracy and murder.
Police Prosecutor, Josephine Awana, had earlier informed the court that the young offender and one other at large, on October 3, about 3:30p.m., at Imo, Arigidi Akoko, conspired to commit murder.
Awana, alleged that the defendant killed Salau, by stabbing him with a knife during a fight.
The prosecutor told the court, “The defendant accused the deceased of accosting her on the way home after a misunderstanding between them.
“It resulted in a fight and the defendant said someone gave her a knife and ordered her to stab the deceased on the neck.”
The offences, according to the prosecution, contravene Sections 124 and 319(1) of the Criminal Code Laws of Ondo State, 2006.
Awana asked the court to remand the offender at the correctional facility, pending the issuance of advice from the DPP.
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