After a four-month trial, Justice Hannah Olushola Ajayi of the Kwara State High Court, sitting in Ilorin, sentenced Abdulrahman Bello, the convicted killer of Hafsoh Yetunde Lawal, a student of a tertiary institution, to death by hanging on Thursday, July 30.
Hafsoh was a 24-year-old final-year student at Kwara State College of Education, Ilorin.
The court, however, discharged and acquitted four other suspects: Ahmed Abdulwasiu, 41; Suleiman Muyideen, 28; Jamiu Uthman, 29; and Abdulrahman Jamiu, 31.
Persecondnews recalls that Bello, at the commencement of the trial, has confessed before the court to the killing his Facebook girlfriend, Hafsoh, for money rituals.
He also claimed to be an Islamic cleric and that he carried out the act alone.
Bello, who claimed he killed Hafsoh and used her body parts for money rituals, lamented that if he had known an alternative way to obtain the required ingredients, he would not have taken her life.
Persecondnews also recalls that on February 13, 2025, the victim was said to be attending a naming ceremony of a friend’s newborn baby when Bello called her to his residence in the Offa Garage area of Ilorin.
During the trial, Bello offered conflicting accounts of Hafsoh Yetunde Lawal’s death.
He initially testified that he choked her by the neck after sexual intercourse, leading to her death, and subsequently dismembered her body.
However, at another point in the proceedings, Bello claimed that the victim died from an asthma attack following multiple sexual encounters.
He stated that fear of how to dispose of her lifeless body then led him to dismember it.
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