i { 5 I I b_ eyond rea~ona~le doubt by the prosecution or proof of murder by ~ircumstant1al evidence where there is no body, medical evidence 1s not necessary and can thus be dispensed with by the Court. In other words , it is not in all murder cases that medical or autop~y reports are necessary in proving cause of death of deceased persons. SEE : OPARA VS . STATE (2006) 9 NWLR (PT. 986) 508. CHUKWU VS . STATE (2007) 13 NWLR (PT. 1052) 430. In the instant case, the facts and circumstances surrounding the death of the deceased Uzoamaka Offor were most undoubtedly beyond argument. There is the evidence of the P.W.2 who was the last person with her colleague Chika Ugwu to see the deceased alive at least after 9 p.m. when they were together at the parlour of the flat which they use as 0 . P. D. section of the hospital. According to her, the deqeased picked her books and left and she assumed that she went upstairs where she was living . The P.W.2 testified that she was asleep when she heard a noise of something that fell down from the upstairs . After about one hour, the defendant entered the place where she was sleeping looking for Uzoamaka Offor. Eventually he discovered her body downstairs and she followed him downstairs around 12 mid-night where she saw the said Uzoamaka Offor lying on the ground stone dead . The P.W.3 who was the Investigating Police Officer in his evidence told the Court that there was injury at the back of the head of the deceased and a lot of blood where she was found . By the evidence of the P.W.1 and P.W.3 post-mortem examination was carried out on the body of the deceased but there is no evidence of the findings made during the autopsy. The prosecution witnesses in the circumstances of this case did not demonstrate the cause of the death of the deceased . I say so because there is no evidence to suggest that the injury at the back of the deceased head was what c~used her death. Assuming the head injury was the cause of her death , was it inflicted on her while she was upstairs or somewhere else? If this is not the case, was the head injury the proximate result of her falling from the three storey building? But the P.W.6 Emmanuel Elekalachi while being cross examined by the learned counsel for the defendant testified that the body of the deceased was not smashed like the body of someone who fell' from a height but blood was gushing out from