Supreme Court Upholds Death Sentence of Kano Actress

Kano State born actress, Rabi Ismaila, who is accused of drugging and drowning her boyfriend in 2002 and sentenced to death by hanging in 2005, had her death sentence upheld by a seven-man panel of the Supreme Court in Abuja on Friday July 8, 2011, after appealing for six years.

The actress and single mother of two allegedly murdered her boyfriend, Auwalu Ibrahim in Dec 2002 with a chocolate drink and pushed him into the Tiga Dam after robbing him. Prosecutors say the actress was also a popular prostitute in Kano.

After the death sentence passed by a High Court in 2005, Rabi appealed at the Court of Appeal, Kaduna, which upheld the death sentence. She then appealed to the Supreme Court which also had the death sentence upheld just this Friday.

Death by hanging? Oh dear, so sad!