Double Murder In Ondo State: Ex- Banker Stabs Wife , Commits Suicide By Hanging

It was double tragedy in Ondo State as a 47-
year-old ex-banker, now a taxi driver, Jimoh
Lateef, after ten years of marriage, stabbed his
former wife, Amudat Oluwafunmilayo, to death
and thereafter committed suicide by hanging. The
marriage was blessed with five children before
things fell apart between the couple who lived at
Omoniyi quarters along Agbogbo area of Owo-
Benin-Akure expressway.
The wife, 45, was a trader at Iloro market, Akure
and hailed from Ijaraisin, Kwara State. The
husband hailed from Osogbo, Osun State. A
report said the couple had been estranged in the
last two years with the husband threatening to
kill the wife and then commit suicide. Sources
said that their families members, after failing to
reconcile them, agreed that they should separate
for a while to allow time heal their troubled
marriage following alleged battering of the wife by
Jimoh.
However, it was learnt that, two weeks ago, the
husband went to court for divorce and the court
granted his request, but when Oluwafunmilayo
went back to the house to pack her belongings,
the husband pleaded with her not to leave him.
The relationship between husband and wife took a
tragic turn on Friday afternoon when one of their
children after returning from school met his mum
in the pool of her own blood and the body of his
father dangling from the ceiling of their
apartment. He reportedly raised the alarm which
attracted neighbours and the whole community
was thrown into confusion.
The Chairman of the Landlord Association of
Omoniyi Quarters, Mr Ojo Oluwatayo, with other
landlords in the area rushed to the Divisional
Police Station in Ijapo to report the matter.
The DPO, SP Jane Mbanefo, and other policemen
mobilised to the scene. Sunday Vanguard
gathered that the the bodies of the couple have
been deposited at the state Specialist Hospital,
Akure morgue for autopsy. Meanwhile, the family
of the husband has pleaded with the police to
release his corpse to them for burial since he was
a Muslim.
Speaking with Sunday Vanguard, the uncle of late
Jimoh, Baba Labaika, said, “We have reported to
the Deji of Akure and we want to bury Jimoh in
his house while his ex-wife will be buried
elsewhere.
Ondo State police image maker, Wole Ogodo,
confirmed the incident. He said a blood stained
knife suspected to have been used by the late
husband to kill the wife was recovered from the
scene of crime.