Defendant’s learned counsel to contend that trial
within trial ought to have been conducted with
respect to the statements.
It is equally late in the day for the Defendant to turn
around, in her defence, to seek to impugn the same
statement whose admissibility she did not object to.
The overwhelming testimonies of the four prosecution
witnesses
which
corroborated
the
Defendant’s
confessional statement clearly rendered her oral
version of what transpired as totally unreliable. I so
hold.
The Supreme Court considered the issue of retraction
of
confessional
statement
by
a
defendant
in
Azabada Vs. State [2014] LPELR-23017(SC), and held,
per Onnoghen, JSC (now CJN) as follows:
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