Son stabbed senior advocate father to death

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The Ogun State Police Command has arrested
Tolani Ajayi, a 21-year old student of the
Department of History and International Relations,
Redeemer University, RCCG Camp Ogun State for
killing his father on Tuesday July 3rd.
The shattered body of Barrister Charles Ajayi, 60,
Senior Advocate of Nigeria, was recovered in a
box at a nearby bush at Canaanland Street at the
Redeemed Christian Church of God Camp, Km 46
Lagos-Ibadan Expressway.
The suspect who is a biological son of the slain
lawyer was arrested same day in his fathers
residence, at the scene of the incident, at about
5:30 p.m. after the discovery of the corpse and
Police preliminary findings.
Redemption Camp DPO, Olaiya Martins who led a
team of detectives and some members of the
community traced ground marks of the box from
where it was dumped to the house of the suspect.

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The corpse was traced to the house of late Barr.
Ajayi,where they met the suspect in a relaxed
mood in the house.
Upon interrogation, the suspect who had earlier
lied that his dad had gone on evangelism,
however,
confessed to the crime when he was taken to the
Redemption Camp Divisional Headquarters.
He stated problem arose when his father
confronted him for not responding to all the
prayer points he raised, forcing his father to slap
him. He said he went mad and went straight to
the kitchen to pick up a knife to stab him and
later a cutlass to cut his throat.
The exhibits including the knife and cutlass he
used in killing his father had been recovered by
the Police and the corpse of the SAN had been
deposited at a morgue in Sagamu.
Ikemefuna Okoye, Commissioner of Police Ogun
state has since sent a team of detectives led by
the officer in charge of Homicide section of the
Department of Criminal Investigation, Eleweran,
Abeokuta to further investigate the murder.
Okoye sympathised with the family of the
deceased, particularly his wife, who is also a legal
practitioner and other children to take solace in
the Lord. He admonished other members of the
community in RCCG to be watchful, adding that,
such incident will not occur again as the
Command will improve on the synergy between
the police and the Internal Security Operatives of
the RCCG.