The High Court sitting in the state capital, Yola, has senetenced a 40-year-old ma, Bangos Adamu, to death by hanging for killing his wife, Regina Bongos and her child, Revelation James.
Justice Fatimah Tafida held that the prosecution proved beyond reasonable doubt that Bangos was guilty of the 2-count charge levelled against him by the prosecution, and convicted him.
The convict, a farmer who hails from Janjaba village in Gombi local government area, was charged to court for killing his wife by hitting her with an axe and hacking her child with a cutlass.
Bangos, in his confessional statement, told the court that he married his late wife after she was divorced by her former husband and she came to his house with Revelation whom she had for her former husband.
He informed the court anytime they had misunderstanding, the deceased would be complaining and threatening to return to her former husband.
Her seven-year-old son, he said, used to support her decision to return to his father.
According to him, they were together at home on the 15th June, 2021, when she asked him to buy bread for the family instead of grains for breakfast, but he refused.
He said as soon as he responded he was not going to buy the bread, she started grumbling it was better for her to return to her former husband’s house.
He added that her response made him angry and he started nursing grudges against her and the child.
He said when all of them retired to bed, he got up, armed himself with axe and cutlass and hit her three times in the head.
He added that while she was struggling between life and death, he used his cutlass to hack little Revelation to death.
He said he rushed out and reported himself to chairman of the local Hunters Association who handed him over to the police.
