A Chinese national, Geng Quangrong, standing trial for allegedly stabbing Ummukulsum Sani, a 24 year-old lady to death in Kano, yesterday, faulted a medical report that certified the victim’s death.
   
Quangrong also objected to a confessional statement brought before the court by the police, insisting that he neither authored nor signed the document.
   
Although, the suspect during the last sitting made a shocking revelation of how he inflicted a deep cut on Ummukulsum’s shoulder out of provocation by the physical attack unleashed on him, he alleged that the police report was fabricated.
 
Quangrong was arraigned on a count charge of culpable homicide by Kano State government. He was held for allegedly stabbing his ex-girl friend to death at her Janbulo Quarters in Kabuga area of Kano metropolis on September 16, 2022.
   
At the resumption of trial yesterday, the defence counsel, Mohammad Danazimi, argued that the medical report signed by three medical officers, including the Chief Medical Officer of Murtala Muhammad Specialists Hospital, Kano, appeared questionable.
   
Danazimi, who raised the objection during cross-examination of the first prosecution witness,Aminu Alilu, insisted the medical report lacked all known professional credibility.
 
The defence lawyer told the court that the medical report that was submitted in photocopy form, showed no clear indication of names of two out of three signatories of the letter.
 
Besides, Danazimi argued further that the defence has reason to opine that  the medical report was not a certified  true copy, because it took 90 days after request before the prosecution could furnish the defence with the evidence.

Also,  Danazimi contended the admission of  the suspect’s confessional statement submitted to the court, insisting that his client was forced, threatened and pushed into the cell in handcuffs.
 
Although the defence requested for trial within trial with the witness to clear the doubt, Justice Sanusi Ado Ma’aji, overruled the request, saying that section 38 (6) of Administration of Crime Justice System (ACJS) has abrogated the provision.
 
The Judge, however, assured that the defence objections would be heard and ruled upon along other addresses at the end of defence.The prosecuting counsel, Aisha Mahmud, had countered the position of the defence and insisted that evidence cannot be rejected, after the same had been tendered before the court.
 
Mahmud, who is also the Director of Public Prosecution (DPP), Kano State Ministry of Justice, revealed that the prosecution has closed the case after presenting five witnesses to prove the veracity of the prosecution.

After taking submissions from parties, Justice Ma’aji adjourned to January 10, 2023 for hearing of  the defence’s application.