Homicide suspect Ayomide Adeleye charged, remanded, police insist

The Lagos State Police Command has clarified that Ayomide Adeleye, who confessed to killing his girlfriend and neighbour, Christiana Idowu, has been charged with homicide and stays in custody over the crime.

This clarification was issued by the State Police Public Relations Officer, SP Benjamin Hundin, in response to experiences that Adeleye was not being detained in any correctional facility in Lagos.

“We are able to verify that Ayomide Adeleye has been charged with homicide and has been remanded in custody for a similar offence,” Hondien stated in his assertion.

“It’s also a proven fact that one other individual with the identical identify was remanded in custody for a special offense and launched in April 2024, lengthy earlier than the Ayomide we’re speaking about dedicated his crime.

“A gaggle that prides itself on investigating ought to stay as much as its identify. Counting on ‘sources’ quite than a correctional service spokesperson would land you in such a misinformation.

Adeleye, a 200-level philosophy scholar at Olabisi Onabanjo College, in September confessed to killing Idowu, a 300-level scholar on the Federal College of Agriculture, Abeokuta, Ogun State.

On 5 November, Adeleye appeared earlier than Justice Seyi Omodara on the Ogba Justice of the Peace’s Courtroom.

The decide issued a remand order, permitting the police to detain him at Ikoyi Correctional Heart pending recommendation from the Directorate of Public Prosecutions.

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