Culpable Homicide: Court Sentences Husband Of Late Gospel Singer, Osinachi To Death

Three years after her death his arraignment, a High Court of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), on Monday, April 28, 2025, sentenced the husband of late gospel singer, Osinachi, Peter Nwachukwu, to death by hanging.

The Court sitting in the Wuse Zone 2, Abuja and presided over by Justice Nwosu-Ihemew found Nwachukwu guilty of culpable homicide resulting in the death of his wife, Osinachi on April 8, 2022.

Justice Nwosu-Iheme held that the prosecution proved the burden of proof placed on it by the law and subsequently found Nwachukwu, the husband of late gospel singer, guilty.

Nwachukwu was arraigned on June 3, 2022 by the Federal Government through the Office of the Attorney-General of the Federation (OAGF), on a 23-count charge.

The charge was based on culpable homicide punishable with death, criminal intimidation, cruelty to children, criminal intimidation of children, and spousal battery, among others.

In the course of trial, the prosecution called 17 witnesses, including two children of the late singer and also tendered 25 documents as exhibits before the court.

However, the defendant called four witnesses and tendered four exhibits in his defence.

Shortly before sentencing, the defence counsel, Reginald Nwali, in his allocutus pleaded with the court to be lenient in its judgement while the prosecution counsel, Aderonke Imala, urged the court to give force to the law as stipulated.

After listening to both the prosecution and defence counsels, Justice Nwosu-Iheme sentenced Nwachukwu to death by hanging on Count 1, and sentenced to two years imprisonment each on Counts 2, 3, 8, 9, 12, 13, and 18.

The trial judge also sentenced Nwachukwu to six months imprisonment on Count 10, three years imprisonment on Count 11, and fined Nwachukwu N500,000 and N200,000 on Counts 6 and 7 respectively.