A Lagos teacher, on Thursday, stabbed her husband of eight years to death in Ikorodu area of the state during a quarrel they had at their residence.
The mother of two disclosed that she stabbed him in self-defense after he pinned her down in a bid to beat her. She said that the husband was always in the habit of beating her.
“I didn’t kill him intentionally. He was always battering me. Today, he pinned me down and started beating me again.
“I picked the knife to scare him, but I mistakenly stabbed him. I couldn’t have killed my husband intentionally. In the past, I used to run out of the house when being beaten, but today, he locked everywhere to prevent my escape.
“My family has told me to divorce him but I didn’t want to, because he is the husband of my youth and we already have two children together. You can ask around, everyone knows he beats me always.”
The woman has been handed to policemen attached to the Igbogbo Police Station.
