A teenager, Omobowale Sunmola, Thursday told a Lagos High Court in Igbosere that her stepfather and his mother beat her elder brother to death and dumped his corpse in a canal.
Omobowale, now 17, testified during the trial of her mother, Margaret Olufunmilayo Odunlade, her stepfather, Folorunsho Emmanuel and his mother, Funke Maxwell, for the alleged offence. He said the defendants unlawfully killed Tunde Sunmola by beating him and not taking him to the hospital for treatment of injuries he sustained on his leg.According to the prosecutor, the offences contravened sections 222 and 163 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State, 2011.The witness said at the time, she lived with her mom, stepdad and his mom, while Tunde lived in Ijebu Ode with their grandmother, Mrs. Arinola Sunmola.
“That night, after we slept, I heard, my mum’s husband and his mother beating my brother. My mum later carried my brother on her back and I woke up and asked her, ‘where are you taking him?’ She said she was taking him back to Ijebu. I told her we were going together but she refused.The witness said the following day, a relation, ‘Aunty Yemi’, told her that her brother was dead.Sunmola, the second prosecution witness, narrated how she found out Tunde was dead.
According to the witness, Yemi persuaded Odunlade to confess, but Odunlade said their vehicle had an accident on their way Lagos and Tunde was killed.
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