{"id":720643,"date":"2019-10-10T20:29:47","date_gmt":"2019-10-10T20:29:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2019\/10\/10\/nigerian-lady-jailed-for-killing-boyfriend-over-engagement-ring\/"},"modified":"2019-10-10T20:29:47","modified_gmt":"2019-10-10T20:29:47","slug":"nigerian-lady-jailed-for-killing-boyfriend-over-engagement-ring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/10\/10\/nigerian-lady-jailed-for-killing-boyfriend-over-engagement-ring\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigerian Lady Jailed For Killing Boyfriend Over Engagement Ring"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<figure id=\"attachment_714346\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-714346\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-714346\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/5d9f2344bd6df.jpg\" alt=\"Blessing Edet\" width=\"600\" height=\"383\"  \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-714346\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Blessing Edet<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Lagos state police command has arrested and arraigned a 27-year-old young lady whose name has been given as\u00a0 Blessing Edet for the murder of her fiance.<\/p>\n<p>According to reports, Edet was arraigned before an Ikeja Special Offences Court for killing her 33-year-old fiance, Edet Ebong after the lovebirds got into an argument over her refusing to wear an engagement ring he gave her. Edet has been sent to 10 years imprisonment.<\/p>\n<p>Read ALso:\u00a0Police Officer Allegedly Murders His Girlfriend Before Committing Suicide<\/p>\n<p>According to New Telegraph, Edet was convicted for involuntary manslaughter.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking in court on February 7, Edet explained her side of the story saying her now-deceased lover wanted her to cook for him at midnight and she refused.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUpon hearing that I was tired, he went into the kitchen and saw the engagement ring he had given me beside the stove. He became angry and asked why I was not wearing the ring.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe broke a mirror and used part of it to stab me, I was bleeding and I was crying out to the neighbors for help,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>She added that during the fight, she stabbed Ebong in the abdomen leading to his death.<\/p>\n<p>. Delivering her judgment, Justice Taiwo said:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBy stabbing the deceased in the lower part of his abdomen, she did not intend to cause grievous harm to the defendant. The defendant has established factors necessary to prove self-defence.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI find that the defendant acted in self-defence as she was a victim of unprovoked assault. The defendant is not guilty of murder but I find her guilty of the involuntary manslaughter of Edet Ebong.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSection 227 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State prescribes life imprisonment for the offence of involuntary manslaughter. This is a clear case of recklessness on the part of both the deceased and the defendant.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI hereby sentence the defendant to 10 years imprisonment with no option of fine. The sentence will take effect from the month of August 2015 which is when she has been in custody.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>              &#13;\n                    <\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blessing Edet The Lagos state police command has arrested and arraigned a 27-year-old young lady whose name has been given as\u00a0 Blessing Edet for the murder of her fiance. According to reports, Edet was arraigned before an Ikeja Special Offences Court for killing her 33-year-old fiance, Edet Ebong after the lovebirds got into an argument [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":720644,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-720643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Nigerian Lady Jailed For Killing Boyfriend Over Engagement Ring - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/10\/10\/nigerian-lady-jailed-for-killing-boyfriend-over-engagement-ring\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Nigerian Lady Jailed For Killing Boyfriend Over Engagement Ring - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Blessing Edet The Lagos state police command has arrested and arraigned a 27-year-old young lady whose name has been given as\u00a0 Blessing Edet for the murder of her fiance. 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