A 15-year-old female student of Anglican Grammar School, Arigidi Akoko, Ondo State, who allegedly stabbed her colleague, Habib Salau, aged 17, to death has been remanded in detention.
Chief Magistrate Olateju Odenusi-Fadeyi ordered her to be remanded at the Ondo State Juvenile Home in Akure pending advice from the office of the Directorate of Public Prosecutions, DPP.
The magistrate, however, did not take her plea.
The SS3 student is standing trial for allegedly stabbing the deceased with a knife during a scuffle after school hours.
The defendant was brought to court on a two-count charge of conspiracy and murder.
Police Prosecutor, Josephine Awana, had earlier informed the court that the young offender and one other at large, on October 3, about 3:30p.m., at Imo, Arigidi Akoko, conspired to commit murder.
Awana alleged that the defendant killed Salau by stabbing him with a knife during a fight.
The prosecutor told the court, “The defendant accused the deceased of accosting her on the way home after a misunderstanding between them.
“It resulted in a fight and the defendant said someone gave her a knife and ordered her to stab the deceased on the neck.”
The offences, according to the prosecution, contravene Sections 124 and 319(1) of the Criminal Code Laws of Ondo State, 2006.
Awana asked the court to remand the offender at the correctional facility pending the issuance of advice from the DPP.
