Afrigather Ayomide Adeleye, the 23-year-old philosophy pupil at Olabisi Onabanjo College, narrating the explanation he killed church member 21-year-old Christiana Idowu mentioned he did it as a result of he wanted cash.
In accordance with a Vanguard report on Sunday, Adeleye, now in custody on the Lagos State Police Command Tactical Unit in Ikeja, admitted to killing Idowu.
“I killed her as a result of I had monetary issues,” he said, describing how he lured the sufferer to his residence underneath the pretence of repairing her telephone”.
The incident occurred when Idowu, a pupil of the Federal College of Agriculture Abeokuta (FUNAAB), visited Adeleye’s residence.
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“She got here to our home round 5 pm on the day of the incident and requested me to restore her telephone,” Adeleye recounted,”.
He then detailed the horrific second of the homicide, stating, “I simply grabbed her, utilized stress. She began struggling. She didn’t actually shout as a result of I already suppressed her. I then squeezed her throat, and she or he gave up.”
Following the homicide, Adeleye began planning on the way to eliminate the physique and extort cash from the sufferer’s mom.
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He described digging a shallow grave behind his compound and burying Idowu’s physique within the early hours of the morning.
“By 4 am the next day, I awoke, I continued digging. Truthfully, I didn’t shut my eyes until dawn,” he mentioned. In a merciless twist, Adeleye then contacted Idowu’s mom, demanding ransom.
“The very first thing I mentioned to her was, ‘Whats up, madam. We’ve your daughter,’” he mentioned. By way of manipulation and threats, he managed to extort N360,000 from the grieving mom.
Narrating the circumstances after demanding three million from the mom, Adeleye mentioned, “I do know for a undeniable fact that she didn’t have three million. Even when she didn’t have that quantity, I used to be prepared to gather any quantity as a result of I desperately wanted cash irrespective of the quantity.
“After going backwards and forwards together with her, she mentioned she was in a position to get N350, 000.00 and I gave her a sporty wager account to pay the cash with a view to keep away from being traced.”
He added that he later requested for an additional N10,000, which the mom had mentioned was all she had left. Adeleye’s seize got here by way of tracing his SportyBet account, the place he had uploaded his Nationwide Identification Quantity.
“If I had not uploaded my NIN, it could simply be an empty account,” he defined, revealing how his try and cowl his tracks finally led to his arrest.
“However the second I uploaded my NIN, all my private particulars, my location, my handle, my title, all the things, was already on the sporty wager. The lady’s telephone was additionally with me, they might have traced the situation of the telephone, that was how they acquired my location,” he added.
Expressing regret for his actions, Adeleye said, “I remorse that I killed her as a result of my mum and her mum had been pals.”
He added, “I don’t deserve any mercy for what I’ve achieved. On the identical time, I ask God to forgive me. What I did was fallacious and I remorse it.
“I really feel remorseful for what I’ve achieved. If there’s any means I might be given a second probability, I need to be given one however I deserve loss of life, truthfully. I’ve been planning to kill myself. Whereas I used to be within the guard room, I attempted to search for any sharp object to chop myself in order that I might bleed to loss of life.”
