UNBELIEVABLE: Female Student Jailed For Killing Neighbour With Hot Water

An Ebute Meta Chief Magistrates' Court in Lagos on Thursday remanded a college understudy, Mabel Bassey, in jail for washing her neighbor with boiling point water and killing him.

Bassey is to be remanded at Ikoyi Prisons pending guidance from the State Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP), as indicated by the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN).

Bassey, an understudy of National Open University of Nigeria (NOUN) and occupant of Surulere Street, Ojo, Lagos, was summoned before Magistrate Bola Folarin-Williams on a charge of homicide.

She was claimed to have poured high temp water on Efe Okotie ,38, on July 2 at their habitation which brought about his demise.

As per the prosecutor, Insp. Olatunde Kehinde, the perished had exhorted Bassey to cease from her indiscriminate way of life which did not run down well with her.

"Out of displeasure, she showered the late Okotie with boiling point water. "The perished passed on six days after the episode because of the extreme smolders he experienced the boiling hot water,'' he told the court.

The offense negated Section 221 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State 2011 which endorses capital punishment for guilty parties.

The case has been suspended to Nov. 4. (NAN)