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Court Sentences Gospel Singer Osinachi’s Husband To Death By Hanging

Court Sentences Gospel Singer Osinachi’s Husband To Death By Hanging
  • PublishedApril 28, 2025

An FCT High Court, Wuse Zone 2, in Abuja on Monday sentenced the husband of late gospel singer, Osinachi, Peter Nwachukwu, to death by hanging.

Nwachukwu was found guilty of culpable homicide resulting in the death of the deceased ( his wife) on April 8, 2022.

Justice Njideka Nwosu-Iheme held that the prosecution had proven the burden of proof placed on it by the law and subsequently found the defendant guilty.

The trial of the husband was brought before the court by the Office of the Attorney-General of the Federation (OAGF).

OSUN DEFENDER reports that the federal government arraigned the defendant on a 23-count charge bordering on culpable homicide punishable with death, criminal intimidation, cruelty to children, criminal intimidation of children, spousal battery, among others.