Ayomide Adeleye, the 23-year-old confessed killer of Christianah Idowu, has arrived at the Magistrate Court in Ogba, Lagos, FIJ can report.
FIJ had gathered that the police would put Adeleye before a magistrate on Thursday.
Adeleye was sitting on the ground in the midst of other criminal suspects awaiting arraignment when FIJ saw him.
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The Olabisi Onabanjo University (OOU) student will stand trial for the murder of Idowu, a Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta (FUNAAB) student who was also his friend.
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Adeleye was the last person to see Idowu alive on August 19 when she stopped by his shop on her way to the University of Lagos, where she worked. She had sought shelter from the rain that day, and he invited her into his family’s house.
There he strangled her to death.
Adeleye propped her body up and sent a picture to Ozobia, pretending she was still alive and demanding a N3 million ransom. What followed was a manhunt for the missing girl.
Soldiers from the 174 Battalion tracked Adeleye down and caught him on September 1. He confessed to killing Idowu a day later.
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