A 28-year-old man, Daniel Peter, on Thursday appeared before a Jos High Court for head butting his friend, Yakubu Abre, which resulted into the latter’s death.

Peter, a resident of Angwan Wakili, Tudun Wada, Jos, was accused of culpable homicide, an offence the police prosecutor, Mr. E. I. Inegbenoise, said contravened section 222 of the Penal Code Laws of Northern Nigeria.

“The accused used his head to hit his victim who fell to the ground and hit his head on a stone. He died a few days later. The offence was committed on December 21, 2016,” the prosecutor told the court.

He said the accused confessed to the police that he head butted the deceased during a scuffle.

“The accused said he alerted others with whom he rushed Abre to a clinic in Tudun Wada from where they were referred to the Plateau Specialist Hospital,” Inegbenoise added.

Justice D.D. Longji, who did not take Peter’s plea, adjourned the matter till July 21 for hearing.

He ordered that the accused be remanded in prison.

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Jos: 28 year old man arraigned for head-butting friend to death