A woman in the Ikorodu area of Lagos, Abimbola Olamide, has been arrested by the Lagos State Police Command for allegedly killing her husband, Dare Akinbobola, by stabbing him in the neck.
Olamide, who confessed to the crime in a viral video, said she acted in self defence as her 28-year-old husband was fond of battering her.
She said she usually ran out of the house whenever he started beating her but on the fateful day, her late husband locked the door and prevented her from escaping.
The suspect further claimed that she took a knife to scare him away but accidentally stabbed him.
“I did not kill my husband intentionally. He was beating me and while hitting me, he broke several plates on my head. He had battered me many times in the past, but whenever he beat me, I usually run out of the house.
“But this time around, he locked the door to prevent me from escaping, pinned me down and battered me. I was helpless.
“I picked up a knife on the ground; my intention was to use the knife to scare him away. So, I held on to the knife, but he didn’t leave me alone. I mistakenly stabbed him; I couldn’t have killed my husband intentionally.
“My family already told me to leave him, but I did not because he was the husband of my youth and father of my two children. He usually beat me; you can ask around, everybody knows. But I have just been enduring it,” she said.