A Lagos High Court sitting in Igbosere, has remanded two
cousins, Olamilekan Oke, 33, and Akande Adeyinka, 27, at the Ikoyi correctional
centre, over alleged rape and murder of Bernadette, 44, the Hungarian wife of
Gildas Tohouo-Tohouo, the managing director of Maersk Nig. Ltd.
The duo were arraigned before Justice Modupe Nico-Clay, who
remanded them after they had taken their plea. The defendants are facing
eight-count charge bordering on conspiracy, murder, attempted murder, unlawful
assault, robbery, armed robbery, and rape, preferred against them by Lagos
state government.
The Lagos state prosecuting counsel Mr Moyosore Onigbanjo
SAN, Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice, who led the Director of
Public Prosecution DPP, Mrs Adeyinka Adeyemi, told the court that the
defendants conspired to commit the alleged offences on December 8, 2019.
He said that the incident took place at about 7:30 pm at
flat 7A, No 1, Lugard Avenue Ikoyi Lagos. Onigbanjo said “Olamileka, on
December 8, 2019, at about 7: 30pm, unlawfully had sexual intercourse with
Bernadetta,”
The prosecutor further told the court that the defendants
unlawfully killed her by suffocating her to death with a small pillow.
Onigbanjo SAN, said that the duo also attempted to unlawfully kill the husband
by stabbing him severally on the neck, head and back with a knife and dagger.
Onigbanjo told the court that the defendants robbed them of
several properties. However, the defendants who are technician and printer
respectively pleaded not guilty to the charge against them. Consequently,
Justice Nico-Clay, adjourned the case till June 30, for trial.
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