MAN ACCUSED OF RAPING NEIGHBOURS' PREGNANT WIFE IN LEKKI

Monday Maule, 25, has been accused of raping one Mrs. Chinyere Samuel, his neighbour’s wife, on Monday, February 23, 2015, who is eight months pregnant. It was gathered that Maule allegedly committed the act by sneaking into the couple’s apartment during the early hours of the day (5am) at Friends Colony Agungi, Lekki, Lagos, while Chinyere was fast asleep.

It was learnt that Chinyere and her children were fast asleep when Maule sneaked in and overpowered her ,in order to commit the act; Chinyere said,she however  quickly raised the alarm and attracted other neighbours. The incident was said to have caused her emotional and physical damage.

It was gathered that Mr. Samuel, Chinyere’s husband, was not always at home due to the nature of his job. Samuel, a Ghanaian by nationality works with a Chinese construction company and hardly returns home to his family.

Maule was on Wednesday arraigned before Mrs. O. M. Sanyo of the Lagos Magistrates’ Court, Tinubu, Lagos Island on one count of rape. The charge read, “That you, Monday Maule, on February 23, 2015, at Friends Colony, Agungi, Lekki, Lagos did unlawfully and forcefully have carnal knowledge of one Chinyere Samuel without her consent and thereby committed an offence contrary to and punishable under Section 259 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State 2011.”

Maule pleaded not guilty and was admitted to bail in the sum of N250, 000 with two sureties in like sum.