23-year-old Ayomide Adeleye, a 300-level philosophy student of Olabisi Onabanjo University, OOU, who k!lled 18-year-old FUNAAB student Christiana Idowu and buried her in his parents’ home in Ikorodu, has shared more details while showing remorse for his actions.
Ayomide, who is now in the custody of the Lagos State Police Command Tactical Unit, Ikeja, said he regrets his actions and that he even tried to cut his wrist with any sharp object so that he would bleed to death but vigilant security agents stopped him.
Recounting how he k!lled Christiana, he told Vanguard: “I had not been at home for over six months. The victim, Christiana Idowu, 18, contacted me several times in school where I was studying Philosophy, in 300 level. She had been contacting me that she wanted to repair her phone because I had repaired it for her before.
“We were church members. I had known her for three years before the incident. She had been contacting me and I told her I would be at home at the end of the session. When I came back to Lagos, she called and I told her I was at home. She came to our house around 5pm on the day of the incident and asked me to repair her phone. She was an Industrial Training, IT, student in Yaba College of Technology. She came with a bike.
“So, when she arrived, I collected the phone from her, looked at it, and I discovered that the phone only had battery problem and the screen was faulty. I just needed to put gum on the screen and change the battery. But she was not ready to change the battery, she just wanted to continue using the phone like that.”
On why he killed her, he said: “I killed her because I had financial problems. I thought of the problems and decided to strangle her while she was busy going through my phone.”
“I then called her mother claiming that she was kidnapped and she should pay ransom.
“I didn’t really pounce on her. She was preoccupied with my own phone. Then, it was drizzling, and a little noisy, so, I just grabbed her, applied pressure. She started struggling. She didn’t really shout because I already suppressed her. I then squeezed her throat and she gave up.
