Corps Member Who Was Almost Lynched Last Year For Allegedly Killing Her Boyfriend In Uyo Freed By Court

 

By Lovina Anthony

A 2021 Batch ‘A’ member of the National Youths Service Corps, Akwa Ibom State, Chidinma Paschaline Odume, who was standing trial over the gruesome murder of one Akwaowo Japheth 26, has been discharged by the State High Court sitting in Uyo, the state capital.

Ms Odume was discharged on Thursday, January 13, 2022, by Justice Bassey Nkanang after it was established that she acted in self-defense.

It could be recalled that Ms Odume was said to have killed Akwaowo in cold blood during an altercation between them on January 10, 2021, at the deceased’s Abak Road residence in Uyo.

However, police preliminary investigations, according to the Public Relations Officer, Odiko Macdon, revealed that the “deceased (Akwaowo) took the accused (Ms Odume) to his house and while in the house, Akwaowo Japhet in a bid to rape her, picked up a machete and attempted to kill her.