A Lagos High Court has been left in a puzzle after a criminal declared at the court hearing that a voice is asking him to kill an inmate at the Ikoyi prison where he is locked up.
The criminal, whose identity is revealed as Nurudeen Bakare, was said to have been arrested and locked up in 2018 after he allegedly stabbed his biological mother to death.
Bakare was said to have lived abroad for 12 years but turned a murderer at 37 years of his age when he killed his mother, Abosede, 65.
Standing trial before Justice Modupe Nico-Clay on Thursday, the defendant, at the commencement of his trial at the court situated at Tafawa Balewa Square, claimed he was a psychiatric patient.
Bakare was reportedly brought from the Ikoyi Custodial Centre and said that he heard voices charging him to kill somebody again in prison.
“I have been hearing voices in the prison that I should kill somebody. It is my mother’s voice that I have been hearing that I must kill somebody in the cell. I even attempted to kill somebody last month on October 11 at the Ikoyi prison,” The PUNCH quoted Bakare as saying in court.
Justice Nico-Clay asked the defendant to stop talking, called a prison official into the courtroom, and instructed him to keep the defendant away from other inmates.
The judge adjourned the case till February 2, 2023, for the commencement of trial, Naija News learnt.
It was gathered that Bakare was arraigned before the court on June 27, 2022, four years after allegedly using a kitchen knife to stab his mother in her stomach and neck. He was charged with one count of murder preferred against him by the Lagos State Government.
The state prosecuting counsel, Titilayo Olanrewaju-Daudu, had presented before the court that the incident occurred on June 6, 2018, around 11 pm, at 49 Oremeji Street, Ilasamaja, in the Mushin area of Lagos State.
According to her, Bakare was remanded by a Yaba Chief Magistrates’ Court on July 4, 2018. The prosecutor, Modupe Olaluwoye, a police sergeant, told the court that Bakare had an altercation with his 65-year-old mother, Bosede, over his inherited property.
“My Lord, during the argument, he grabbed a knife and stabbed her in her stomach and neck.
“During questioning, he admitted to committing the offence and even signed a confessional statement,” Olaluwoye said.
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