An Egor Magistrates’ Court, Benin on Monday May 11,sentenced husband and wife; Monday Johnson, 44, and Patience Johnson, 36, to three months imprisonment each for assaulting daughter and Mother: Mrs Hope Ughabugo and Mrs. Tina Omogbai.
The Magistrate, Mrs Florence Aghedo, sentenced the defendants after she find them guilty of one count charge of assault out of two filed against them.
Aghedo, however, gave the convict an option to pay a fine of N5,000 each.
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She also ordered the defendants to to pay N10,000 to the complainant, Ughabugo as compensation.
However, the magistrate dismissed count charge of conspiracy filed against the defendants, adding that there was no trace of conspiracy as they were husband and wife.
Earlier, the police prosecutor, Sgt. Daniel Ifidon, told the court that the defendants committed the crime on Aug. 20, 2019 at Benin Technical Road, Benin in Egor magisterial district.
According the prosecutor, on the said date, Patience unlawfully assaulted the complainant by using her fist to blow on her stomach
“Ughabugo and her Mother, Mrs Omogbai had entered the ‘Keke NAPEP’ at Benin Technical Junction, while Patience forcefully tried to drag Ughabugo out of the Keke, alleged that she came first.
” When Patience husband’s Johnson noticed the action of his wife and another woman, he parked his car, without asking question and joined his wife and assaulted Ughabugo’s mother by slapping her on her face.
“Mr Johnson later took his wife away on his car. It was from licensing office that he was traced to his place of work at Psychiatric Hospital in Benin, where he was arrested”, Prosecutor said.
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The prosecutor said the offence contravened the provision of sections 516 and 351 of the Criminal Code Cap. 48 Vol. 11, Laws of the defunct Bendel State of Nigeria, 1976, now applicable in Edo.