An Ilorin Magistrates’ Court on Thursday remanded a 35-year-old school teacher, David Ogundele, in prison custody for allegedly stabbing his girlfriend, Tosin Ashinwo, to death. Ogundele is standing trial for culpable homicide
contrary to Section 221 of Penal Code. The Magistrate, Mrs Mercy Adebola, ordered that the accused be remanded at the Madalla Prison, Ilorin, and adjourned the case to June 6 for further mention.
Prosecutor
Abideen Oderinde had told the court that the accused stabbed the
deceased and her mother, Abiola Âshinwo, following their refusal to his
proposal of marriage to Tosin. Oderinde said the late Tosin and her
mother refused to accept the proposal because Ogundele was a married
man. He said that apparently infuriated by the refusal, the accused ran
into the kitchen, picked a knife and stabbed Tosin to death. “The
suspect also stabbed the mother of the deceased several times on the
body and she subsequently lost consciousness. “She is receiving
treatment at the University of Ilorin Teaching Hospital (UITH), but her
survival is not certain,’’ the prosecutor said. He said that police
investigation revealed that the accused stabbed the deceased and fled
the scene and had been on the run till his eventual arrest by security
operatives at Oba-Ile, his home town in Osun.
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