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Court sentences MTN employee’s killer to death

Justice Adebayo Yusuf of the Kwara State High Court, Ilorin, on Tuesday, sentenced one David Ogundele, to death by hanging for killing an employee of MTN, Abiola Ashinwo.
Ashinwo, who was the convict’s girlfriend, was stabbed to death with a knife by Ogundele on April 25, 2016.
Ogundele was found guilty and convicted on two counts of attempt to commit culpable homicide by stabbing Ashinwo with a knife and culpable homicide by stabbing her to death.
The police prosecutor, Mr Abdulmumini Jimoh, quoted the convict as saying in his confessional statement that he visited the victim in her parents’ house and met her and her mother, and that an argument later ensued and he stabbed her and her mother.

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