The Lagos State Police Command has said that an Ikorodu, Lagos-based man, Motunrayo Olaniyi, who stabbed his newly wed wife, Olajumoke, to death and set ablaze her body is now in its custody.
Olaniyi was said to have inflicted some wound on himself after allegedly committing the act but he was taken to the hospital by the police, which arrested him after treatment.
The tragic incident happened at Amazing Grace Estate, Elepe in the Ikorodu area of Lagos State on Friday, October 4.
According to a statement released by the spokesperson of the command, SP Benjamin Hundeyin, Motunrayo allegedly st@bbed his 25-year-old wife multiple times during an altercation, locked her in the room, and set it on fire. Hundeyin stated that the accused went on to Inflict wounds on himself after committing the act.
“A distress call was received on October 4 at Ikorodu Division that a newly wedded couple, one Motunrayo Olaniyi, aged 30, and his wife Olajumoke, aged 25 years, allegedly engaged in a domestic scuffle in their room at Amazing Grace Estate, Elepe, Ikorodu.
In the process, the husband reportedly st@bbed the wife to d£ath, locked her in the room, and set it ablaze, while he inflicted w@unds on himself.
Police from the Ikorodu Division responded to a distress call and put out the fire. They found Olajumoke’s lifeless body with abdominal wounds.”
