Justice Fatimah Tafida of the Adamawa State High Court on Monday sentenced a 40-year-old man, Adamu Bangos, to death by hanging for killing his wife and child.

Tafida ordered the execution of the accused by hanging after the court found him guilty of first degree murder.

She held that the prosecution proved beyond reasonable doubt that Adamu was guilty of the second count charge of first degree murder and therefore convicted him.

The convict, who hails from Janjaba village in the Gombi Local Government Area of the state, confessed to hacking his late wife, Regina Bangos, and her son, Revelation James, to death.

In his confessional statement made before the sentencing, the accused said he married his late wife after she was divorced by her estranged husband, adding that she came into his house with the son of her former husband.

Though he said they had been having a lingering domestic crisis, he claimed to have become distressed when she threatened to return to her ex-husband.

Explaining to the court how he murdered his wife and her seven-year-old son, Adamu said, “We were together at home on June 15, 2021, when she asked me to give her grains to cook. I told her to go to the kitchen and get them. But she refused to go to the kitchen and instead demanded I should buy bread for them to eat and leave the grains to be used the following day. When I told her I did not have money for bread, she started grumbling to the extent that she said it was better for her to return to her former husband’s house.”

“When all of them retired to bed on the night of that fateful day, I hit her with a cutlass. I used the cutlass and butchered the boy,” Adamu added.