Abiodun Gafar claimed that the woman, popularly known as Iya Ibadan, stepped on his foot and that was the reason he used a sharp, curvyed knife to slice her throat on May 9, 2010.
Gafar alleged that before he slept and woke up at about 11 pm, he had smoked Indian hemp. So, when he left his room at Better Life street, Makoko area, he went to urinate outside and as he wanted to go inside, the mentally challenged woman stepped on him.
The suspect alleged that the devil took control of him and he killed her. The alleged murderer said it was because of Indian hemp smoking and bad friends he had at Mushin that made his mother to bring him to Makoko area of Ebute-Metta to live with her. He claimed to have been sick but his mother had no money to treat him at a hospital, instead, she took him to native doctor.
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