[Courtesy]A woman charged with slashing her husband to death in defence has earned her liberty in a plea bargain deal. Reduced from murder to manslaughter, the woman who used a machete the husband had purposed to accomplish his mission of cutting her into pieces, was ordered to serve a one-day non-custodial sentence in jail. We would never know that the accused herein was undergoing domestic violence which she had lived with throughout her marriage to the deceased,” the judge added. For several years, she told the court in her mitigation that she had endured domestic violence which had placed her own life on the line through the frequent beatings she was subjected to by her deceased husband. And despite her admission, a plea of not guilty was entered by the court on grounds that her admission to the murder charge had been equivocal.

Source: Standard Digital March 10, 2021 12:56 UTC