Olalekan Shonde, the suspect in the culpable homicide trial over the death of his wife (Ronke), appeared at the Ebute Meta magistrate court Friday afternoon, looking unkempt.
The suspect who was on the run for three days until he surrendered to the police on Monday, May 9, was wearing a blue ‘polo’ top and beige chinos short. He now has a beard, splashed with gray hair, showing he has not shaved for days.
His charge sheet read:
“That you, Shonde Olalekan ‘M’ on the 5th of May, 2016 at about 2030 hrs, at 3, Tiemo Str, Egbeda, Lagos, in the Lagos Magisterial District, did kill one Ronke Shonde ‘F’, age 37 years, by giving her fist blow on her head and thereby committed an offence, punishable under section 221 of the criminal Law of Lagos state of Nigeria, 2011.”
The Magistrate, Mrs Oluyemisi Adelaja, ordered after his plea, that he should be remanded at the Ikoyi Prisons for 30 days, pending an advice from the state’s Director of Public Prosecutions. The case has been adjourned till June 24 for mention.