Mother In-Law Dies After Her Daughter In-Law Pours Hot Water Mixed With Pepper On Her

Mother In-Law Dies After Her Daughter In-Law Pours Hot Water Mixed With Pepper On Her

A middle-aged woman identified as Mrs Rebecca Oladosu, has died after
her daughter in-law,  Taye Lamidi, connived with one other, Basirat
Lamidi, to pour hot water mixed with pepper on her.

According to the police, Basirat and Taye attacked the deceased on
October 30th 2018, at her home in Okeyelu village, Ilie, in the Olorunda
local government area of Osun State. The duo were arrested immediately
the incident happened and have since been in and out of  a magistrate
court in Osun state.

At the resumed hearing of the case on Friday February 1st 2019, the
police prosecutor, Inspector Muslim Jafani, told the court that Mrs
Odusanya who had been in the hospital since the incident, had died.
Jafani then asked the court to strike out the previous charges levelled
against the accused persons and substitute it with two new counts of
felony and murder.

The new charges read in part

“That you Basirat Lamidi and Taye Lamidi, and one other now at large,
on October 30, 2018, around 1.30pm at Okeyelu village, Ilie, in the
Osogbo Magisterial District, did conspire among yourselves to commit
felony to wit; murder, thereby committing an offence contrary to and
punishable under Section 516 of the Criminal Code, Vol. 34, Laws of Osun
State of Nigeria, 2003.

“That you Basirat Lamidi and Taye Lamidi and one other now at large,
on the same date, time and place in the aforementioned magisterial
district, did cause the death of one Mrs Rebecca Oladosu by pouring hot
water mixed with pepper on her body, thereby committing an offence
contrary to and punishable under Section 316 of the Criminal Code Vol.
34, Laws of Osun State of Nigeria, 2003.”

The Magistrate, R. A. Olayemi, adjourned the case to March 21st 2019
and ordered that the accused be remanded in the custody of the Ilesa
Prison pending an advice from the state’s Director of Public
Prosecutions.