A teacher and mother of two stabbed her husband to death during a fight at their residence in Ikorodu, Lagos on Wednesday.
According to the wife, she stabbed him in self defense, after being pinned down by the deceased, who was notorious for always beating her.
When interviewed, the sobbing suspect said: “I didn’t kill him intentionally. He was always battering me. Today, he pinned me down and started beating me again.
“I picked the knife to scare him, but I mistakenly stabbed him. I couldn’t have killed my husband intentionally.
“In the past, I used to run out of the house when being beaten, but today, he locked everywhere to prevent my escape.
“My family have told me to divorce him but I didn’t want to, because he is the husband of my youth and we already have two children together. You can ask around, everyone knows he beats me always.”
The wife has since been arrested by policemen attached to the Igbogbo Police Station where she is being detained while investigation is ongoing.
According to one commentator, “about 90 percent of all these men beating their wives to death and even women stabbing their husbands to death is hardship. When there is money in the family, there are less problems in that family. I hardly hear well to do couples engaging in a fight to the extent of killing each other.”