Suspected killer of AAUA female student confesses
A 21-year old final year student of Adekunle Ajasin University Akungba Akoko, Ondo state, Olubodun Sanni, has confessed to stabbing a 20-year-old female student of the same institution, Adekunle Adebisi Ifeoluwa, to death over her iPhone XR.
The victim, Adebisi, was a 300-level economics student of the institution and lived in the same off-campus hostel with her killer.
Police sources hinted that the suspect confessed that he was attracted to the victim by her telephone and devised a means of becoming her friend.
According to the police source” the suspect confessed even before her parents that on that ill-fated day, he approached the victim to transfer some film from her telephone to his iPad.
” The unsuspecting female student obliged him but didn’t allow him into her room. She told the suspect that her telephone battery was low.
” The suspect them excused himself to come back later with his power bank to charge the victims telephone.
” He came back to the victim’s room very late and was allowed into the room where he grabbed the victim by the neck and stabbed her in the chest with a knife he brought along.
” The suspect then took the victim’s telephone, destroyed her SIM card and inserted his own SIM card.
” Police findings showed that he would make use of the phone during the day and hid it inside an uncompleted building close to the hostel.
It was gathered that police detectives discovered that it was active and they traced the call chart to the mother of the suspect, who was subsequently arrested.
“The mother after interrogation, led police detectives to her son’s hostel where he was arrested.
Parading the suspected killer student, who is a Geology student of the institution, alongside other criminals, the state Police Commissioner, Abayomi Oladipo, said in Akure, that the suspect was arrested by the use of modern technology to trace her stolen phone by the suspect.
Oladipo said that “On 2nd of February, 2024, a case of suspected Murder was reported to the Police that One AdekunleAdebisiIfeoluwa ‘F’ aged 20yrs, a 300level student of Adekunle Ajasin University Akungba Akoko was found in a pool of blood at her off campus hostel and was rushed to the university health centre and later referred to a Specialist Hospital in Ikare Akoko where she was confirmed dead.
“In the course of investigation, the police discovered that the deceased phone was missing.
“The police through the use of modern technology traced the phone to one Olubodun Sanni ‘m’ aged 21yrs, a final year student of the same school who is also a neighbour to the deceased in the hostel.
Oladipo added that “The recovered phone led to further questioning of the suspect who gave details of what happened in his confessional statement, how he entered the deceased room, stabbed her on the chest with knife and he stole her iPhone XR.
The police commissioner said that the suspect would be charged to court at the end of investigation.
