[ 2016-06-29 ]

Tamale High Court Sentences ‘Jealous Rival’ to Death by Hanging
Tamale High Presided over by Mr. Justice Charles
Gyamfi Danquah has sentenced one Zelia Sulemana to
death by hanging for murder.

The convict murdered Rawdia Aminu, a student nurse
an ex – girlfriend of one Alhassan Abdul -Rahman
who is the current boyfriend of the Convict.

Even though the relationship between the deceased
and Abdul- Rahman ended before he met the Convict,
there was still bad blood between the deceased and
Abdul – Rahman for which Abdul -Rahman indicated
that he will make his girlfriend beat up the
deceased.

The convict later befriended the deceased
deceiving her that she was also interested in
becoming a nurse. The deceased went with the
Convict to her home and introduced her to her
parents as her newly found friend. On 11th April,
2014, the deceased was home when the convict
called her that she was outside her house and
wanted to see her and the deceased obliged her.
When the deceased went out, she was accosted by
the Convict who queried her about her relationship
with her boyfriend which resulted in an argument.

The convict without any provocation stabbed the
deceased twice; in the chest and abdomen and the
deceased fell down unconscious. The convict made
an attempt to flee from the scene on a motor bike
but she was restrained by a Good Samaritan. Upon
realizing that she could not escape from the
scene, the Convict slashed her hand claiming that
it was the deceased who inflicted the knife wounds
on her. Both the deceased and the convict were
rushed to the Hospital for treatment but the
deceased died soon after being admitted for
treatment. Post-mortem conducted on the body of
the deceased revealed that the deceased died of
“hemorrhagic shock, massive left haemothorax and
punctured wound to the left chest wall”.

At the end of the case the jury returned a
unanimous verdict of guilty on her. The presiding
judge ordered a pregnancy test to be conducted on
the Convict in view of the fact that the offence
carries the death penalty. The pregnancy test
however proved negative.

Source - Ultimate1069.com

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