Judgement: Lekan Shonde Sentenced to Death for Killing Wife

The Lagos State High Court on Friday sentenced Lekan Shonde to death by hanging for killing his wife, Ronke, Punch Metro reports. Lekan Shonde, a depot worker in the Apapa area of Lagos State, was found guilty of the murder of his wife. It had been reported that 51-year-old Lekan allegedly beat his wife to death at their home in the Egbeda-Idimu area of Lagos State.

He was alleged to have locked the door on the corpse and their two children before the incident was discovered by a housekeeper and later reported to the police.

The family nanny had arrived to prepare the children for school and found the house locked. Looking through the window, she found Ronke's children crying because they couldn’t get their mummy to wake up.

When the nanny forced the door open, she found that Ronke's body showed signs that she had suffered domestic violence. Her husband, Lekan, was nowhere in sight and his phones were switched off.

According to the spokesperson for the Command, Dolapo Badmos, Mr. Shonde was tracked down to a location in Ikeja before his arrest.

The police said he had been on the run for days before he was finally apprehended.

Shonde was transferred to the state department of criminal investigation for further investigations on the case before he was charged.