A Lagos High Lagos in Igbosere has sentenced a Cameroonian cook,
Leudjou Koyemen Joel, to death for the December 20, 2016 murder of
Dayo Adeleke.
Justice Adedayo Akintoye convicted Joel, after a nearly two year
trial following his “Not guilty” plea to a one-count charge of
murder.
Joel stabbed Adeleke, daughter of the late Brigadier General
Adekola Alfred Adeleke, in the neck and heart, shortly after she
returned from the office.
According to the police, he was angry that she refused to give
him a two-week salary advance which he requested for earlier that
morning.
He was apprehended at the gate of the deceased’s Park View
Estate, Ikoyi gate, while attempting to run away.
Joel a refugee from Cameroon that was being rehabilitated in a
church in Lagos, was employed by Adeleke on compassionate grounds
following a request by the pastor of the church
Seven months later, and exactly three months after her
engagement with her fiancée, she was murdered.
Details shortly…
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