The magistrate Courtroom docket in Ogba, Lagos State, has ordered the remand of confessed killer Ayomide Adeleye inside the Lagos Correctional Facility, Kirikiri, Alausa.
Seyi Omodara, presiding over Adeleye’s listening to on Thursday, made the selection after the state arraigned him for kidnapping and killing 21-year-old Christianah Idowu.
The police filed a two-count price in the direction of Adeleye, accusing him of violating the Kidnapping Prohibition Regulation (2017) and the Felony Regulation of Lagos (2015).
These bills be taught: “That you just simply Ayomide Adeleye on the nineteenth day of August 2024, at about 5:10 pm, at No. 15, Ajumuti Street, Ita Oluwo, Ikorodu Street, Lagos inside the Lagos Magisterial District, did unlawfully lure Christianah Idowu right into a retailer in entrance of your father’s residence, held her hostage and picked up a ransom of N360,000 from the family [with the] pretence of releasing her and thereby devoted an offence punishable beneath Half 2 of the Kidnapping Prohibition Regulation (2017) of Lagos State, Nigeria.
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“That you just simply, Ayomide Adeleye on the similar date, time and place inside the aforementioned Magisterial District, did unlawfully kill one Christianah Idowu and buried her in a shallow grave inside your father’s compound and thereby devoted an offence reverse to Half 222 and punishable beneath Half 223 of the Felony Regulation of Lagos State (2015).”
Rita Ozobia, Idowu’s foster mother, appeared in courtroom docket for the listening to inside the agency of her mates. She knowledgeable the magistrate about her interaction with Adeleye, his ransom demand, and the way in which she learnt he killed her daughter.
Omodara ordered that the police save Adeleye’s audio confession in CD format and duplicate his case file as they await the advice of the Directorate of Public Prosecution (DPP).
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On state of affairs of anonymity, a staff of the courtroom docket who did not have authorisation to speak to the press knowledgeable FIJ the matter will probably be transferred to a State Extreme Courtroom docket upon receipt of a constructive advice from the DPP.
INVESTIGATION ONGOING
Within the meantime, the police said aside from Idowu’s physique they found bones after they visited Adeleye’s compound. They said they despatched the bones for forensic examination, nonetheless found them to be animal bones.
Investigation, they’re saying, stays to be ongoing to search out out if he had help ending up the crime, and if he was involved in several murders.
“He denied killing his sister,” a provide inside the police knowledgeable FIJ.
“On social media, he claimed earlier that if he had carried out points otherwise, she needs to be alive, nonetheless what he knowledgeable investigators about it was that on the day she died, she wished him to accompany him to an unknown location.
“He said he refused and went out for hours. When he returned residence, he met her ready that regarded like she was asleep, nonetheless when he requested his youthful ones, they said she stepped out for about 10 minutes, returned residence and went unconscious. He said that was how she died.”
Adeleye has since confessed to killing Idowu, nonetheless he claims he did not premeditate killing her.
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