whereabout and that it was somebody who informed him that the defendant was at the Sokoto correctional centre because he committed the alledged offence. DW1 also told this court that the said medical report was obtained in the year 2021. It is to be noted that it is through the evidence of this DW1 that the defence tried to convince this court that the defendant is entitled to the defence of insanity. In the case of ADELU v STATE 2014 LPELR 2286 SC, the Supreme Court held as follows: To show that the accused person is insane it must be shown that a) At the time the offence is committed, the accused person was suffering from mental disease. b) That the mental disease was so serious that at the relevant time the accused person did not knew what he was doing or/and could not control his actions, or that he should not do what he did intention which is the state of mind of the accused/appellant in most cases is inferred from the facts established in court.” 31

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