Accused carried wife like dead pig, court heard
A15-year-old student, while giving evidence at the High Court in Suva yesterday, recalled that the accused carried his wife on his shoulders “like carrying a dead pig”.
This is in the trial of Jekope Rokovuki Naimawi, who appeared before Justice Salesi Temo, charged for the murder of his 35-year-old wife.
It is alleged that the accused murdered his 35-year-old wife in Kalabu, Nasinu, on January 10, 2019.
The student recalled that on the day of the alleged incident, the accused with his wife and three others, were drinking homebrew from a two kilogram biscuit bucket, under the pine trees.
She told the court that after some time while drinking, Naimawi and his wife had a fight and she saw Naimawi took the bucket and threw it at his wife. The court heard that the bucket hit the deceased’s right eyebrow and the accused had kicked the deceased on her chest.
She told the court that the accused dragged the deceased by her top to go and cook.
The witness told the court that the accused left the deceased, went home and returned with a cane knife and swung it at the deceased.
She told the court that the other person, who was drinking with the accused, pushed the deceased away.
She also told the court that one of the men, who was drinking with the accused, spoke to him and the deceased ran to her house, with her face covered in blood.
The witness told the court that she advised the deceased to rest inside the house and took her to her bed where the deceased hid underneath the bed.
She told the court that she hid the deceased by using a bag to block her.
She highlighted to the court that the deceased was being assaulted by the accused and always sought for help from her family to save her.
The witness told the court that when Naimawi found out that the deceased was at her house, he went to her looking for the deceased and her aunt told him that the deceased was lying down.
She recalled that the accused went to the room where the deceased was and brought her out carrying her on his shoulders like a dead pig, and took her to his house.
The witness recalled that when she went to the accused’s house and smelled benzene, she peeped through the curtain and saw the deceased lying down on the floor.
The trial continues today.
A42-year-old married man raped his wife with a body spray bottle on March 14, 2019 in the Central Division. He was sentenced to seven years imprisonment with a non-parole period of five years by Justice Salemo Temo.
In the High Court in Suva, Justice Temo said marriage means a union of two consenting adults who loved each other, but this was not the case for the offender.
“In your case, you started off loving each other resulting in four young children,” he said.
Justice Temo said the act itself was an ultimate breach of trust. The couple had resided at the offender’s family house at a village with their children, the offender’s mother and brother.
The court heard that according to the victim, her mother-in-law began to speak ill of her to others, and the offender’s mother
The High Court in Suva has found a 44-year-old man guilty for multiple counts of rape and sexual assault.
The accused, who is currently on bench warrant, had his trial commence on July 20 to July 24 in absentia before Judge Justice Riyaz Hamza.
The accused was on bail and and brother were complaining that the children were eating a lot thereby straining the family’s finances.
It appeared that the couple began to quarrel more often culminating in the offender raping the victim with a body spray bottle and repeatedly assaulting her.
Justice Temo said rape as an offence was very serious.
He said rape offence carried a maximum sentence of life imprisonment.
“Rape is a serious invasion of a person’s dignity and privacy. It demeans people. It is the ultimate show of disrespect to a person.” He said the offender showed no regard to the victim’s right as a human being.
Justice Temo also issued a permanent domestic violence restraining order with standard non-molestation conditions for the safety of the victim. failed trial.
He is convicted for six counts of rape and two counts of sexual assault.
The complainant in the case was his stepdaughter who was 10 years old when the first offence occurred, between 2014 and 2018 at Nausori.
The High Court will deliver the sentence on August 10. to appear in court for his