Pregnant woman remanded in prison for chopping off neighbour’s breast

A 24-year-old pregnant woman, Funke Jamiu was on Thursday remanded in Kirikiri prisons by an Ejigbo Magistrates’ Court, Lagos for biting off a chunk of her co-tenant’s breast during a squabble.

According to the police prosecutor, Cpl. Oluwafemi Adeleye, the accused on November 4 bite off one Bola Ajiboye’s breast during a fight.

Adeleye told the court that Jamiu, a housewife, reportedly committed the offence at No. 17, Awolo St., Isheri-Osun, Ijagemo, Lagos.

He said, “The defendant, who confessed to have committed the act, did not only inflict her co-tenant with bruises but also used her fingers and her teeth to cut off part of Ajiboye’s breast.”

The offence, according to him, contravened section 24 of the Criminal Code, Laws of Lagos State, 2011.

The prosecutor said that fight broke out between the duo when the accused claimed that there was an unfavourable rumour being spread about her by the victim.

”The other neighbours in the compound, however, involved the police, when the situation became uncontrollable,’’ the prosecutor said.

The magistrate, Mrs. M.B. Folami, ordered Jamiu to be remanded in prisons when she pleaded guilty to the one count charge, and adjourned the case till November 23 for fact and proper sentence.