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<\/p>\nJustice Adedayo Akintoye convicted Janet, 34, following her plea of guilty to an amended one-count charge of manslaughter, NAN reports.<\/p>\n
She said the sentence would take effect from Aug. 21 2009 when the Janet was first arraigned and remanded by a magistrates\u2019 court.<\/p>\n
Akintoye, in her judgment, noted that the case was transferred to the high court in 2013 but on Monday, April 8, the defendant entered a plea bargain agreement with the prosecution.<\/p>\n
She said that the defendant, however, changed her plea to a plea of guilty to the amended charge of manslaughter.<\/p>\n
Akintoye said: \u201cThe sentence and plea bargain agreement states that the defendant has shown remorse for the offence of manslaughter committed on the Aug. 10, 2009 against the person of one Saviour.<\/p>\n
\u201cOthers are that defedant pleads guilty to the offence as charged, the defendant gives an undertaking to be of good behaviour, upon the completion of the jail term.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn view of this therefore, the defendant, Janet James, is hereby found guilty of manslaughter and is accordingly convicted of same.<\/p>\n
\u201cI have taken into consideration that this is a 2013 case. I have also been guided by the plea and sentencing agreement entered into by the prosecution and the defendant.<\/p>\n
\u201cI note also the fact that the defendant has been in remand custody for many years. As a result therefore, the defendant is hereby sentenced to a term of 14 years.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe term of imprisonment is to run from the date of remand, which is August 21st 2009. This is the judgment of the court.\u201d<\/p>\n
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Janet was re-arraigned at the high court in 2013, on a one-count charge of murder.<\/p>\n
She pleaded not guilty to the charge.<\/p>\n
The prosecution counsel, Mrs Abiola Gbadamosi, told the court that Janet committed the offence at 8 p.m, on Aug. 10, 2009, in the Ilupeju area of Lagos State.<\/p>\n
She said the convict killed Saviour by beating him with a turning stick after accusing him of stealing meat from a pot of soup.<\/p>\n
Gbadamosi then dumped his body in the premises of an insurance company in Ilupeju.<\/p>\n
She said the offence contravened the provisions of Section 317 of the Criminal Code, Laws of Lagos State 2003.\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
An Igbosere High Court, Lagos on Monday, sentenced a cook, Janet James, to 14 years in prison for beating her eight-year-old brother, Saviour, to death for stealing meat from a pot of soup. Justice Adedayo Akintoye convicted Janet, 34, following her plea of guilty to an amended one-count charge of manslaughter, NAN reports. She said […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":106191,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3773,3],"tags":[400,8912,250],"class_list":["post-107604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime","category-news","tag-court","tag-jail","tag-lagos"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107604","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=107604"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107604\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/106191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=107604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=107604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=107604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}