Supreme Court Upholds Death Sentence For Hausa Actress

Posted by admin Arts/Culture & Entertainment, Headlines Saturday, July 9th, 2011

The Supreme Court, on Friday, upheld the death sentence passed on Kano State-based Kannywood actress, Miss Rabi Ismail, by a Kano State High Court and the Court of Appeal in the Kaduna Division, for allegedly killing her boyfriend, Ibrahim Auwalu, in 2002, by drugging and drowning him.

In the lead judgment of the apex court prepared by Justice Francis Fedode Tabai, the court noted that the actress was charged with culpable homicide against the deceased. It stated that having examined the alleged confessional statements of the accused actress as well as the witnesses’ depositions and the records of trial within trial, it did not see any reason to interfere with the decisions of the High Court and Court of Appeal on the matter which concurrently found Miss Ismail guilty of culpable homicide.

The court consequently affirmed and upheld the death sentence earlier passed on the Kannywood actress.

Rabi was arraigned before the Kano court in 2002 and charged with the offence of culpable homicide contrary to section 221 (b) of the Penal Code.

She was alleged to have drugged the deceased, alias Zazu, by giving him a doped Eclairs sweet as a result of which the deceased lost consciousness.

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