Jealous lover gets seven-year jail term for acid attack on ex-girlfriend

A Jealous lover, who is a 32-year-old carpenter, Onyekachi Agu, has been sentenced to seven years imprisonment for pouring acid on his ex-girlfriend and her new partner by a Lagos State High Court.

The sentence was handed down by Justice Oyindamola Ogala on Wednesday after finding Agu guilty of causing grievous bodily harm to two persons, Aishat Adefarati and Mansur Ahmed, in 2020.

According to state prosecutor Uju Uwangaze, Agu committed the offence on July 3, 2020, at Gangare Hotel, Mile 12, in Lagos, where he traced the victims and carried out the attack.

The prosecutor added that the offence contravened Section 245 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State, 2015.

Agu had pleaded not guilty to the charge against him, but the court found him guilty based on his confessional statement and sentenced him accordingly.

“The defendant is hereby sentenced to imprisonment of seven years with hard labour and the sentence is to run concurrently,” the judge ruled.