Cameroonian cook to die by hanging for killing General’s daughter

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A Lagos High Lagos in Igbosere has sentenced a Cameroonian cook, Leudjou Koyemen Joel, to death for the December 20, 2016 murder of Dayo Adeleke.

Justice Adedayo Akintoye convicted Joel, after a nearly two year trial following his “Not guilty” plea to a one-count charge of murder.

Joel stabbed Adeleke, daughter of the late Brigadier General Adekola Alfred Adeleke, in the neck and heart, shortly after she returned from the office.

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According to the police, he was angry that she refused to give him a two-week salary advance which he requested for earlier that morning.

He was apprehended at the gate of the deceased’s Park View Estate, Ikoyi gate, while attempting to run away.

Joel a refugee from Cameroon that was being rehabilitated in a church in Lagos, was employed by Adeleke on compassionate grounds following a request by the pastor of the church

Seven months later, and exactly three months after her engagement with her fiancée, she was murdered.

Details shortly…

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