A UK-based pregnant Nigerian woman has been reportedly beaten to death by her husband after she filed for divorce.
The woman simply identified as Hope filed a divorce application at the Ikorodu High Court in Lagos with the help of a lawyer in Nigeria.
The lawyer, Bolanle Cole, writing on social media said the victim’s father had contacted him that his daughter wants to divorce her husband.
Cole filed the petition in court on her behalf. However, extended family and some pastors in the UK got involved, so it was agreed that the divorce case should annulled.
Unfortunately, barely a day after the petition was struck out Bolanle got reports that the husband hit his wife in her belly and she was five months pregnant.
He said she died as a result of the attack and her father decided to take up the matter with the UK authorities.
The post reads:
“Sometime last year, her father called to tell me that her daughter in the UK will call me to institute a case for dissolution of her marriage. She eventually called me and I did the needful and the petition was filed at High Court Ikorodu.
“A week after I filed the Petition, her husband, herself and other family members requested to have a meeting with me, so we scheduled a zoom meeting. Some pastors from the UK joined the meeting and it was resolved that peace will be brokered.
Thereafter, she sent me a mail to discontinue the case…. though I never appeared in court until the matter was struck out…. Just yesterday, I was told that her husband hit her at her tommy with five months pregnancy which led to her death. Her father called me yesternight to send those documents I filed in court as he wants to send it to some investigating authorities in UK.
Do I believe that the husband hit her… weh, the pictures I have on my phone during my conversations with them give credence to their history of domestic violence. RIP HOPE”
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