An Ebute-Meta Magistrates’ Court, Lagos, on Wednesday, ordered the remand of three defendants at the correctional centre following a murder charge preferred against them by the police in Lagos.
The defendants are: Sunday Sojunu, 35, his wife,Toyin, 31, and an alleged accomplice, Dare Sampson, 32.
The defendants were charged on three-counts, bordering on alleged murder of a 45-year-old man, Mr Ayoola Bello, at the Ikorodu area of the state.
NAN reports that the charge were read before the court, but the pleas of the defendants we’re not taken..
Magistrate Mrs O. O Adeosun ordered that the male defendants be remanded at the Ikoyi while the female defendant be remanded at the KiriKiri Correctional Facility pending legal advice.
The court, consequently, directed that the case file be forwarded to the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) for advice.
She adjourned the case until Jan. 21, 2026.
In the charge, the prosecutor, ASP Kehinde Olatunde, alleged that the defendants were apprehended on Dec. 8 for their roles in the crime.
“Toyin, a TikTok content creator, met the deceased, Mr Ayoola Bello, on the social media platform and both became friends and eager to meet physically.
“On Sept. 15, pretending to her husband of her journey to Cotonou, Benin Republic, Toyin traveled straight to Ijebu-Ode Ogun State on a visit to the deceased where she spent two days with him at an undisclosed local hotel in Ijebu- ode.
“Thereafter, the couple allegedly fell critically ill and they could not find remedy to their unabated ailment said to have been caused by the wife’s infidelity.
“She later openly confessed to her husband that she cheated on him by sleeping with her lover, and sought for forgiveness which she thought would alleviate their illness, ” he said.
The prosecutor said that the husband mounted pressure on the wife to lure the deceased down to their house at Ikorodu.
“Before then, the husband have hired the accomplice, a notorious cultist and hired killer, who has been on the police wanted list for sometime, to assist him in killing the deceased.
“They held the man in captivity and collected N200,000 ransom from his family before they tied his hands and legs and tortured him.
“They forced him to take some shots of snipper to drink, which he gulped to his death.
“His arms and legs decimated and packed inside sacks separated from the body trunk which were transported in a motor bike to an isolated Adamo Junction, where the deceased body parts was dumped into the river, ” he said.
The offences contravenes the provisions of sections 165, 222 and 233 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State 2015.
Section 222 prescribes the death penalty for murder upon conviction. (NAN)
