Update On Lekan Shonde - Man Who Killed His Wife in Lagos Says ‘I Didn’t Kill My Wife’.

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Lekan Shonde, a dock worker accused of killing his banker wife, Ronke, at their home in Egbeda, Lagos, yesterday told an Ikeja High Court what happened...

He gave his account under cross examination by the prosecuting counsel, Mr. Y.G. Oshoala, before Justice Josephine Oyefeso.

Shonde said: “I did not kill her. I didn’t have any reason to kill her because we had resolved the matter that night.”

He opened and closed his defense yesterday. He was led in defense by his counsel, Chief Robert Clarke (SAN). He was a lone defense witness.

Oshoala told the defendant his usual habit was to carry the deceased and hit her against the wall, adding that he had displayed an intention to deal ruthlessly with the deceased.

He said: “I put it to you that she was going to divorce you and that was why you beat her up.”

But Shonde denied the claims, saying: “Adunni (the name he fondly called the deceased) never said such thing to me.”

He said he did not go to his in-laws’ home until after “two or three days” after the incident because his father and some people told him if he did, they would not spare him.

The defendant said instead, he surrendered himself to the Rapid Response Squad (RRS) after he was declared wanted.

Answering a question by the prosecution, he denied taking his wife’s phone.

Asked to read a portion of the statement he gave the police, marked exhibit P1A, Shonde claimed to have a poor vision and that he had no eye glasses.

Still under cross examination by the prosecution, he said he was surprised that the autopsy report showed evidence of hemorrhage; that the deceased’s brain was “heavy, swollen and filled with water and other signs of violent attack, particularly around the neck.”

Opening his defense, Shonde had accused his wife of having extra-marital affair.

Earlier, while being led in defense by his counsel, Chief Clarke, he said his wife called him that fateful day and told him to buy moin-moin and eko on his way from work, which they would eat that night (May 6, 2016).

“When I got home, I headed for the sitting room and heard Adunni speaking on the phone, talking to one Kayode. She said on the phone: ‘Kayode, you are sweet. What did you use in sleeping with me?’

“I slapped her from behind, I was at her back. She surged forward, fell and hit her head on the ground. Later, she stood up and held me. She said she was sorry,” Shonde told the court.

He said his wife later went inside to change and had her bath. He said she came out to serve their dinner.

Shonde said he took the moin-moin with garri, while she took hers with eko.

He said because there was no electricity, his wife went downstairs to play with their neighbours, while he went to bed.

“Later, I came out and saw her lying on the couch. I said ‘Adunni, why are you lying there’ and she said she would join me later.