Slain banker: Court refuses pictures as evidence because the pics was taken with Analogue camera.

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A Lagos High Court on Wednesday refused to admit as evidence photographs of the vehicle of alleged wife killer, Akolade Arowolo, due to

legal technicalities. Akolade is in court for the alleged murder of his wife, Titilayo, an employee of Skye Bank, who was killed at their home on June 24, 2011.

While being led in evidence by the Director of Public Prosecutions, Mrs Olabisi Ogungbesan; the ninth witness for the prosecution, Mr. Gift Ineche, a police inspector, told the court that he took the pictures of the crime scene.

Ineche, who is attached to the Forensic Photography Section of the State Criminal Investigation Department, Yaba, said he used an analogue camera to take pictures of the blood-stained vehicle of Akolade’s Honda Car at Aswani Police Division.

The pictures labelled ID4, ID5, ID6, ID7 and ID8, were shown to Ineche for identification purposes and were recognised by him.

Ogungbesan then sought to tender the pictures as evidence but Akolade’s lawyer, Mr. Olanrewaju Ajanaku, immediately objected to it on the grounds that since the pictures emanated from an analogue camera, the negatives ought to be tendered as the primary evidence.

Ajanaku prayed the court not to admit the pictures as evidence since the negatives were not made available to the court.

Justice Lateefah Okunnu said, “The law is settled that the camera in question is an old style camera. It is therefore the negatives that are primary evidence and no foundation has been laid.

“IDs 5-8 are therefore refused by the court.”

“The case is hereby adjourned till June 6 and 7 for further hearing.”

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