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Olubunmi Abodunde reportedly beat Taiwo, his wife, to death with their son’s skateboard as police waited outside the apartment for permission from superiors.On the night of the incident, officers heard a number of bangs inside the house Abodunde had gone into, even though bail conditions imposed the day before had banned him from the property after another violent episode.
According to the newspaper, when police finally entered the apartment some 25 minutes later, they found Taiwo, 41, on the floor with her “skull smashed in”.“A post-mortem examination later showed she had been throttled until she fell unconscious, then stamped on until her ribs were broken, before her husband used the skateboard to finish her off. The blows were so violent that the skateboard was damaged,” the report reads.
The police investigated Abodunde a number of times for alleged domestic violence before his wife’s death. On April 27, 2023, police arrived at the couple’s home in Newmarket, Suffolk, and found Taiwo with a split lip.Taiwo worked as a care home assistant in Cambridge. Her husband trained as a civil engineer but was unable to get a job in his profession. He took shifts at Tesco, a supermarket; and Wickes, a home improvement retailer and garden centre.
“On November 28, we got into an argument. She ran at me with a knife, I grabbed the knife and cut my hand. I was defending myself.”However, police told the court that while Abodunde sustained an injury on his hand, there was no knife near his wife’s body. Martyn Levett, a judge at the Ipswich Crown Court, has warned the Nigerian that the only possible sentence was life imprisonment.Click on the link below to join TheCable Channel on WhatsApp for your Breaking News, Business Analysis, Politics, Fact Check, Sports and Entertainment News!
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