Woman Slashes Another Woman's Breasts
Tina Promise has been accused of
slashing her rival’s face and breast with a razor blade. The police said Tina,
a mother of three including a three-month-old baby, suspected that her lover
was also dating a cleaner at Eko Hotel, Esther Onogwu.
It alleged that on Monday at
about 9:20pm on a street on Victoria Island, Lagos, Tina, 28, accosted Onogwu,
22, on the suspicion that her lover was in Onogwu’s home and attacked her with
the blade.
Tina was arraigned Wednesday
before Magistrate A. F. Botoku of an Igbosere Magistrates’ Court, Lagos on a
one-count charge of unlawful assault. .
Prosecuting Sergeant, Francesca
Job, said: “On the day of the incident, the victim was on her way home after
close of work when the defendant approached her and demanded for the key to her
room.
Onogwu asked who the defendant
was and why she needed the key to her house, but the defendant suddenly brought out a razor blade and started cutting
her on her head and left breast.
She then tried to leave but
passersby apprehended her and asked her to take the victim to the hospital for
treatment, but she refused, saying she didn’t have money to pay for the
treatment.
It was the passersby, Job said,
that took Onogwu to the Bar Beach Police Station from where she was taken to a
hospital. Magistrate Botoku granted Tina a N200,000 bail with one surety in the
like sum. She adjourned the case till March 1
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