“The accused was secretly looking at the complainant when she was bathing,” he said. Olatunde said that the accused was sitting at the passage when the complainant passed with a bucket of water to bath. “The accused sneaked and followed her behind, he went to the back of the bathroom where there is a small hole, stood there and was peeping at her while she bathed,” he said.
The
prosecutor said that when the complainant noticed an eyeball watching her, she
poured soap water on the eye. “While she was bathing, she sighted an eye
looking at her through a small hole in the bathroom and she poured soap water
on the eye. “The accused forcefully opened the bathroom door, descended on the
complainant by punching her severally on her face, and she quickly shouted for
help and neighbours came to her rescue,” Olatunde said.
He said
that before that day, the accused had on two different occasions went to knock
on the complainant’s door at 12 midnight asking her to open her door that he
wanted to deliver a message. “The accused knocked the complainant’s door at
midnight begging her to allow him enter that her friend sent him to her, the
complainant always ignored him, telling him to wait for day to break,” he said.
The
offences, Olatunde said, contravened sections 166 and 171 of the Criminal Law
of Lagos State, 2011. Section 171 prescribes a three-year jail term as penalty
for offenders. The accused pleaded innocence of the offences and was granted
bail in the sum of N50, 000 with one surety in like sum. The Magistrate, Mr
Akeem Fashola, adjourned the case to June 8 for mention.
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