Alleged Homicide: Court Dismisses Osinachi’s Husband’s No-Case Submission

 Justice Nwosu-Iheme declared in her ruling that the prosecution had proven its case against the defendant.

For the death of Osinachi, the Federal Government has charged Nwachukwu on 23 counts.

The defendant entered a not guilty plea, and the court ordered that he be held at the Kuje detention facility pending further proceedings.

Throughout the course of the trial, which started on June 20, 2022, and finished on March 10, 2023, the prosecution summoned 17 witnesses to the stand.

Initially, throat cancer was assumed to have been Mrs. Osinachi's cause of death when she passed away on April 8, 2022.

However, her relatives and acquaintances asserted that her death was related to an assault by her husband, who was later detained.

Following an autopsy, the National Hospital in Abuja reported that the dead bore no signs of violence.

Osinachi's death was attributed to a variety of factors, according to the report, including "generalized organ pallor; bilateral leg swelling; fluid in the sac containing the heart; tumour deposits in and on the heart, lungs, and kidneys; massively enlarged heart; and fluid around the lungs which restrict breathing."

I.A. Aliyu, the attorney for Mr. Nwachukwu, filed a no-case submission after the report, meaning that Nwachukwu had no case to answer.

According to Aliyu, the medical professionals' testimony cleared Nwachukwu of the charges of culpable homicide and domestic violence.

According to him, the autopsy report showed that Osinachi's death was brought on completely by tumors that had grown outside of his body, which led to cardiac tamponade, the primary cause of death, and abnormal tissue growth (cancer), the secondary cause of death.

He requested that the court clear his client of all charges.

The court, however, rejected the no-case statement and mandated that the defendant present his case.