Suspected serial killer, 23-year-old Ayomide Adeleye, has shared the frightening details of how he murdered a fellow member of his church, Christiannah Idowu, a student at the Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta (FUNAAB).
Ayomide who is a 300-level philosophy student of Olabisi Onabanjo University, OOU told Sunday Vanguard that he snuck on an unsuspecting Christiannah and strangled her. The soldiers from the Nigerian army arrested the beastly student who told the newspaper his victim didn’t have a chance.
“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”, he was quoted as saying.
Ayomide further explained how he placed an already-dead Christiannah on a chair to snap her and send the picture to her widow mother to demand for a ransom.
He said: “I placed her body on a seat and took her picture so that I could send it to her mother. I didn’t send it immediately, I just left her at the shop like that. That was around 5:30 pm on Monday night. I left her on the seat and went to plan how to dispose of the body. By 11 p.m. that same night, I started to dig her grave in a small farm behind our compound. Luckily, rain fell that day, so the ground was a little soft. I dug using shovel. I was not able to dig deep that night. So, I postponed the digging. The body was still in the shop. By 4 am the following day, I woke up, I continued digging.
” Honestly, I did not close my eyes till day break. I was just filled with thoughts about what I did. I then took the body to the shallow grave only to notice that it could not be covered well. I thought of what to do because I was really tired of digging. I had blisters on my hand and the shovel I used had already broken. So, I thought of chopping off her head to make it easy to bury but I did not have the courage to do that. I just had to continue digging even if the shovel broke, I continued to dig until the shallow grave could contain her. I then buried her, and covered it with sand. Everything happened before 5 a.m. Then I left the scene to contact her mother and demanded ransom.”
On how the ransom was paid, Ayomide said: “I was ready to collect any amount because I desperately needed money no matter the amount. After going back and forth with her, she said she was able to get N350, 000.00 and I gave her a sporty bet account to pay the money in order to avoid being traced. That was three days after I buried her daughter. She sent the money there, but, I was unable to withdraw at first because Sporty bet had this rule that once you deposit, you have to play at least a game before you can withdraw. I tried to withdraw but they locked the fund. Then, they asked me to present my NIN for verification. I sent it to them, and they released the money. They didn’t release it until three days later”.
According to Section 319 of the Criminal Code, any person who commits the offence of murder shall be sentenced to death, Ayomide committed the crime in Lagos where the Criminal Code is operational.
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