The prime suspect within the homicide of a remaining 12 months feminine pupil of the Kwara State School of Training, Abdulrahman Bello, instructed the court docket on Wednesday that he singlehandedly carried out the dismemberment of the deceased after he had taken alcohol.
Testifying earlier than Justice Hannah Ajayi of the State Excessive Court docket, whereas opening his defence, the suspect absolved his co-defendants of any involvement within the incident.
Abdulrahman Bello additionally instructed the court docket that he used the knife and cutlass discovered by police detectives in his two-room residence at Olunlade space of Ilorin, the state capital, to dismember the physique of the deceased.
The suspect, who denied killing the deceased mentioned that Hafsoh died when she gasped throughout sexual activity as a consequence of bronchial asthma assault.
“I went out to get inhaler for her after I seen that she was gasping as a result of she had bronchial asthma. By the point I got here again into the room, she had died. So, I left my place to take alcohol and returned to chop the physique components into items”, he instructed the court docket,” he acknowledged.
Throughout cross examination by the Director of Public Prosecution (DPP), the prime suspect additionally confirmed to the court docket that he didn’t name any of his neighbours to the incident, nor did he report the matter on the police station, whereas he additionally didn’t take the physique of the deceased to hospital, “as a result of I used to be afraid of her father”.
The DPP put it to the suspect that the drained blood and human components of the deceased present in his place had not decomposed after 5 days of the incident, as a result of they had been immersed in alcohol for preservation.
The suspect, nonetheless, denied maintaining the blood and the handhand, purposely, for cash making rituals.
He mentioned he regretted all of the actions he took over the incident, including that he was deeply unhappy.
The prime suspect, who insisted that he didn’t kill the deceased, mentioned that he liked her, “as a result of I can’t ever meet her variety. She cared for my life. Even, I instructed the Police that she made me to do 2024 NABTEB examination. And that she made me to take JAMB kind in preparation for the simply concluded examination. She was distinctive in my life”.
He mentioned he was tortured by the police to say within the video proof, introduced in court docket, that he poisoned the meals taken by the deceased and that he strangulated her to kill her.
All the opposite 4 co-defendants within the matter denied data of the killing of the deceased, when testifying earlier than the court docket.
In the meantime, all of the defence counsel, unanimously, proposed seven days to file their written addresses, concurrently, earlier than the court docket, whereas the prosecution counsel requested for 10 days to file his, after the defence counsels would have served theirs.
Justice Hannah Ajayi, who granted the requests, later adjourned the matter to July 2, 2025 for remaining adoption of the addresses.
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