She was sentenced to death by a High Court in Kano.
Actress Rabi Ismail was said to have killed her boyfriend, Ibrahim Auwalu (an actor too) in 2002 to acquire his property.
According to reports, she had lured Ibrahim to a picnic at Tiga Dam, where she poisoned him with chocolate and pushed him into the dam.
Quoting Rabi’s confessional statement, the judge noted that before pushing Auwalu into the dam, Rabi had removed the sum of N10,000 from his pocket.
Rabi Ismail murder case went all the way to the Supreme Court.
The High Court and the Court of Appeal had earlier ruled that she was guilty of murder and should be executed.
In July 2011, the Supreme Court upheld the sentence of the lower and appeal courts that sentenced her to death by hanging.
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Rabi was initially held at the Kaduna Central Prison from where she was transferred to Hadejia prison to await the execution of the judgment.
However on December 16, 2011, she escaped from prison and for six years, no one knew where she was hiding.
In 2017, Rabi Ismail was recaptured by the employees of the Intelligence Unit of the Nigerian Prisons Service and State Security Service.
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