Housewife sentenced to death for murdering childhood friend’s 8-year-old daughter

The Kano State High Court, Kano, has sentenced a housewife to death for the murdering of her childhood friend’s 8-year-old daughter Aisha Sani.

According to reports from LIB, the accused, Fadila kidnapped her childhood friend’s daughter, Aisha Sani, and pushed her into a well.

The corpse of the little girl was later retrieved from the well at Gandu Albasa Quarters two weeks after she went missing.

Delivering judgment, trial judge Yusuf Muhammad-Ubale sentenced the accused to murder by hanging.

“I hereby sentence the defendant to death by hanging for kidnapping and throwing the victim into a well which caused her death,” he ruled.

Before the judgment, Judge Yusuf Muhammad disclosed that the accused also the housewife kidnapped her childhood friend’s daughter on 14 July 2019, at Tudun Wada Quarters, Kano AT 4:45 pm.

“The defendant told her sister that the deceased was the daughter of her friend, whose mother had traveled to Ghana, and asked her to keep the child until she returned.

“On 17 July 2019, at about 6:30 p.m., the defendant caused the death of the minor when she threw her into a deep well situated in the Tukuntawa Quarters, Kano,” he said.