The
court has agreed on alleged husband killer Yewande Oyediran’s mode of
appearance during proceedings.
Yewande
is facing trial at an Oyo State High Court presided by Justice Mukhtar
Abimbola for allegedly stabbing her France-based businessman husband to
death at Akobo area of Ibadan last month.
Both
the prosecuting and defence lawyers had been engaged in a war of
words after Yewande appeared in court wearing a veil.
But
at the hearing on Wednesday, the court agreed to let the accused person to
appear in court wearing a veil, saying it would give the suspect
the freedom to show her face to only counsel and the trial judge.
The
development followed a motion moved by counsel for the family of
the deceased, who read a note purportedly written by a member of the
family doubting the true identity of the suspect.
According
to counsel the appellant, Chief Aliyu, the deceased’s family demanded the
removal of the cloth being used by the suspect to cover her face during trial
to ascertain her identity.
When
asked to react, Oyo State Director of Public Prosecutions, who is also the
state counsel, Mr. Tajudeen Abdulganiy, disagreed with the lawyer for the
family, saying the suspect was only responsible to the court and not the
people at the gallery.
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