Mother of two sentenced to life imprisonment for murdering husband with broken bottle

The conviction followed a full trial in which a seven-member jury returned a 5–2 majority verdict of guilty, the minimum majority required under Section 46 of the Criminal Offences Act, 1960 (Act 29), as amended by the Criminal and Other Offences (Amendment) Act, 2023 (Act 1101)." Delivering the sentence, Justice Simmons said: "With the jury having returned a majority verdict of 5–2 of guilty, the accused is hereby convicted under Section 46 of Act 29, as amended by the Criminal and Other Offences (Amendment) Act, 2023 (Act 1101)."A High Court in Accra has sentenced a mother of two, Lydia Aboagye, to life imprisonment after finding her guilty of murdering her husband, Kweku Gyasi, following a domestic dispute at Omanjor in 2021.