Teacher stabs girlfriend to death for refusing his marriage proposal

Ilorin – An Ilorin
Magistrates’ Court on Thursday remanded a 35-year-old school teacher,
David Ogundele, in prison custody for allegedly stabbing his
girlfriend,
 Tosin Ashinwo, to death.

Ogundele is standing trial for culpable homicide contrary to Section 221
 of Penal Code.

The Magistrate, Mrs Mercy Adebola, ordered that the accused be remanded
at the Madalla Prison, Ilorin, and adjourned the case to June 6 for
further mention.

Prosecutor Abideen Oderinde had told the court that the accused stabbed
the deceased and her mother, Abiola Âshinwo, following their refusal to
his proposal of marriage to Tosin.

Oderinde said the late Tosin and her mother refused to accept the
proposal because Ogundele was a married man.

He said that apparently infuriated by the refusal, the accused ran into
the kitchen, picked a knife and stabbed Tosin to death.

“The suspect also stabbed the mother of the deceased several times on
the body and she subsequently lost consciousness.

“She is receiving treatment at the University of Ilorin Teaching
Hospital (UITH), but her survival is not certain,’’ the prosecutor said.
The knife, the instrument of death.

File: The knife, the instrument of death.

He said that police investigation revealed that the accused stabbed the
deceased, a member of staff of MTN, to death at her residence at Tanke
Area, Ilorin.

Oderinde said that after Ogundele committed the offence, he fled the
scene and had been on the run till his eventual arrest by security
operatives at Oba-Ile, his home town in Osun.

The prosecutor objected to his bail application on the ground that it
was a capital offence.