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.
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.”
“She was focusing on the TikTok video. She did not say anything. In fact, when that incident happened, my cell phone dropped from her hand,” he explained.
“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 a 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 daybreak. 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.
Finally he said,
Pleading for forgiveness, he said: “I don’t deserve any mercy for what I have done. At the same time, I ask God to forgive me. What I did was totally wrong and I regret it. I feel remorseful for what I have done. If there’s any way I could be given a second chance, I want to be given one but I deserve death, honestly. I have been planning to kill myself. While I was in the guard room, I tried to look for any sharp object to cut myself so that I would bleed to death.”
