by Jewel Stephen
A 37-year-old Carpenter, Okechukwu Onyemachi, who attempted to take his life in a Police cell, was arraigned before an Ebute-Metta Chief’s Magistrate’s Court.
Onyemachi, who is is facing a two-count charge of assault, reportedly tried to avoid prosecution for chopping off his ex-lover’s lip by attempting to commit suicide, using his trousers to hang himself.
The carpenter was arrested for beating and chopping off the upper lip of an ex-lover, Nneka Obi, after meeting another man in her apartment.
Sergeant Quasim Adams, the Police prosecutor, told the court that the defendant beat up and hit the victim with a hard object on the head before biting off her upper lip on the morning of 7 August at 80, Kadara Street, Oyingbo.
He also told the court that the defendant deliberately tried to hang himself making use of his trousers and the water pipe that runs through the police’s cell, with the purpose of evading prosecution
Adams also said that the offences are contrary to Sections 244 and 233 of the Criminal Laws of Lagos State of Nigeria, 2011. The defendant, however, pleaded not guilty to the charges against him.
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