His evidence in defence is to the effect that on 10/1 2/2011 when he .rdur i ,cd ho me from work, he was informed by his wife lhat his late mother cam e Jnd caITied the _Avacado tree wood pac~ed by him where he was currently crcc :i ii:; a li uu::,; c at the back to her own ap :u1m ent. Dcfcnda111 with the aid of tore.\~ light went to meet his mother, asking her w t·y she carried the said woo8 . As he v,ms pncki ng the vmod hack into a wh 1·~el barre>w, his mother held him . As this \/I as on go ing, the Defendant's wife start ed tak>ng the firew ood to their own com p )und in piecemeal. Then he begged his mother to leave him ·alone but inste2-d she hel d his private part with his boxers . He then pulled off his boxers, forc c .ully. took same from his mother and ran naked back to his house.§ Defendant contended that he is not aware th at his mother fell down but he adrn i-lcu th at he hcarJ lier shouting that th ,.: Dcfell <lant had ki lled her. H~ diJ not g > back to sec her but went ir'¢>ide his house, put on his generator and went to be I. He dcn ieci bec1ting or innicting any injury on his moth er while she w;:is hol di 1g him . He confirmed that no one else was present at that time except him stJ L his w ife and his mother (the decea~.ed). 1 Defendant alieged that prior to the incident, his mother had malaria and lli~rc ore was nol physically fil. He <le11ied knowillg al a11yti111 e that his lllothe.r was qospitalized and maintained not to be responsible for the death cf his m u Ci T st Under cross-examination, the Defendant admitted not to be the I son of the d ~ceased and that the compound was yet to be partitioned . He admitted not to ha 1c noti fie d his mother before he cut the avocado tree. He also maintained llial l c wore shirt and trouser when he went to meet his moth1~r that night. I-k den ic j hittin g his mother with wood which eventually led to her death . He also m~ in ~i11cd never to h~vc forcefully draggsd the wood with his mother \\·hich mach her fal I and hit her waist on the ground but insisted that after the inc ident , his 11 other went into her apc1rtmcnt. The Defendant denied ever telling his maternal uncle, one ·Felix U11igwe 11cvc to re/er to the deceased as his mother the next day aHer t 1.1e incident when he Cc. me . He stated that his mother fell sick one month after the incident but he did n ) l visit her in the hospital because he \vas not aware. DW2 \Vas one Chine lo Nzelu (Mrs .). She is the wife of the Defendant on 1ccu1 .J Sill: !ulJ the story or how her 1ilother-in-la N came to tl :eir compounJ tu rcm c vc fire wood cut and packed by her ]1usband. She repmicd same to her lwsL 11H.l ;rn d the y butli went lo her moth .~r-in-law's aparlm (n l \\'ith a \rliccl ban(.w . ----- - - -·_:._· --, -C-EP-1~ \fl~tD~Jl-;::iF'UE COi-!·'..: -- .,,r-,v r·-.,, I~ w,-...l ~l, .L\. \_J,, ...li~~' · _,_, ~ zcr 2. /t gtd , . c ·f ,,· •• r- L : Tf.'. !11-< · rlj GH COUR r ~ {~•~~~~r+J ')