Update, Pics:Lekan Shonde Is Sentenced To Expiry Yesteryear Hanging For Killing Wife

Lekan Shonde has been sentenced to expire past times hanging for killing his wife, Ronke Shonde.

51-year-old Lekan, a depot worker inward the Apapa expanse of Lagos State, was works life guilty of the murder of his married adult woman in addition to he was today sentenced past times the Lagos State High Court.

Mrs Ronke Shonde was works life dead at her habitation inward Egbeda on the morning time of May 6, 2016.

The identify unit of measurement nanny had arrived to fix the children for schoolhouse in addition to works life the solid locked. Looking through the window, she works life Ronke's children crying because they couldn’t larn their mummy to wake up.

When the nanny forced the door open, she works life that Ronke's torso showed signs that she had suffered domestic violence. Her husband, Lekan, was nowhere inward sight in addition to his phones were switched off.

When he lastly spoke to Punch from hiding, he claimed he had zero to produce amongst his wife's death, inward spite of reports he had beaten her to expire in addition to was ever inward the habit of beating her at every slight provocation. He too defendant her of constantly cheating on him in addition to refusing to create for him. He added that she was cheating on him with one Kayode, the full general managing director of a publishing company, and they had an declaration almost it the black before, merely he claimed he didn't shell her to death.

He too made a declaration that shocked everyone who read it at the time.

He said: "I am a Lagos man child in addition to I tin terminate live inward this Lagos for the adjacent thirty years in addition to nobody would come across me."

He was said to convey surrendered to the regime 5 days later, after an extensive manhunt.

During the trial, the prosecution had alleged that Lekan Shonde committed the offence at 8.30 p.m. on May 5, 2016 at his residence at No. 3, Tiemo Close, Egbeda, close Lagos. But the torso wasn't discovered until the next day.

The Lagos State High Court works life him guilty of murder in addition to sentenced him on Friday, March 8, 2019.

Delivering the judgement, Justice Josephine Oyefeso sentenced Lekan to expire past times hanging based on the conviction that the convict killed his wife, Ronke.