Lekan Shonde, a depot
worker in Apapa, Lagos State, has been sentenced to death for the murder of his
wife Ronke.
Giving the ruling at the
Lagos State High Court, Justice Josephine Oyefeso ruled against Shonde and
sentenced him to death by hanging.
Shonde was accused of
killing Ronke in their Lagos home.
He had consistently denied
committing the crime, stating that he only slapped
Lekan had accused her of
sleeping with one Kayode, the General Manager of a publishing company, before
her death.
He had also allegedly
locked up the corpse of his spouse, with his children inside their home, before
she was discovered hours later by their housekeeper.
He committed the offence in
May 2016.
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