A divorced father of three stabbed his mother 21 times after becoming convinced that she was a witch and had put a curse on him, a court in Britain heard on Friday.
Kayode Kuye reportedly tortured and killed Christina Kuye, 69, because he believed she had ruined his life with a black magic spell, the Old Bailey was told. Unemployed Kuye, 50, of Edmonton, north London, pleaded guilty to manslaughter on the grounds of diminished responsibility.
The judge, Christopher Moss, ordered him locked up indefinitely under mental health laws and described it as a “brutal” killing.
Kuye reportedly attacked his mother after letting himself into her home in Finchley, north London, with a key in May last year, the court heard.
After a lengthy argument, he stabbed her 21 times to the upper body, also slashing her arms and hands as she tried to defend herself.
He was later arrested covered in blood at Finchley Central station, laughing as he said: “I have had an argument with my mother.”
Policemen forced their way into her home where they found her body in her bedroom.
Kuye later told psychiatrists that his purpose was “to torture his mother to try to prevent her from continuing what he perceived to be black magic upon him,” said Alan Kent, prosecuting officer.
Mr. Kent said: “The motivation behind his attack was his paranoid and deluded belief that his mother had cursed him through witchcraft and had ruined his life.”
Mrs. Kuye came to Britain from Nigeria in 1961 with her husband, who died in 1984. She had eight children, including the defendant, and 20 grandchildren.
She herself believed in witchcraft and her son became increasingly interested in the subject during the four years before he killed her.
His mother helped him get in touch with a witch doctor she knew in Nigeria and he would send him money “for advice and medicine,” the court heard.
Two years before the killing, he began to blame her for all his problems, saying she had “sacrificed him as a child and had put a curse on him.”
He believed that “he was a king and should be rich, but the curse prevented this from happening.”
For about a year before his mother’s death, he had been saying he was going to kill her, as well as other family members.
On the day of the stabbing, he had been “ranting and raving” at his former wife and told her that “he had to go and do what he had to do,” the court heard.
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A Nigerian mother, who worked for asylum seekers in Britain, has been stabbed to death in her London home in front of her own children. The victim, who was named as Ayodele Akinsiku, was found a few metres from her front door where she had bled to death after trying to escape from her killer. It is understood that her three young children were inside the home when the murder took place.
The body of a man, who was thought to be the killer, was also found at the scene in Deptford. Police said they were treating the death of the civil servant as murder. The man’s death was officially described as “unexplained.”
Detectives on Friday working on the theory that he had stabbed Mrs. Akinsiku first before turning the knife on himself.
Neighbours of Akinsiku, who lived in a tower block in Evelyn Street, said she was a Christian with three children, aged eight, five and two, and served as a parent governor at Grinling Gibbons Primary School.
Friend, Annette Reid, 34, said Akinsiku dealt with appeals at the Asylum and Immigration Tribunal, and her husband, who was thought to have been out at the time of the killing, had just finished a master’s degree.
Mrs Reid said: “Apparently, there was an altercation the previous night and from what I’ve been told, the man stabbed her and then killed himself.
“She tried to get out of the door but collapsed on the landing. You could see the paramedics trying to resuscitate her. The children saw everything and are very traumatised. That’s what her husband told my husband.”
Mrs. Reid said her friend had previously argued with a man who had been living with the family after moving from Nigeria. Scotland Yard said the man and woman were pronounced dead at the scene at about 8:00 a.m. on Friday.Nigerian Woman Killed In London.
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A female member of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) in Niger state, has been reportedly strangulated to death by her male colleague . Nigerian Tribune learnt that the deceased and her assailant were both from the South Eastern part of the country.
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During the on-going service year, according to the Nigerian Tribune findings, the two corps members developed interest in each other with a promise that they would end up before the alter to consummate their love in marriage.
However, according to findings, the female corps member later found another lover who was able to find her accommodation within the Army Barracks in Minna, the state capital.
It was learnt that anytime the male colleague called on a visit, he was always embarrassed to find other men in her apartment and he did not hide his dislike for the attitude of his proposed wife.
It was gathered that last Thursday, when the male corps member visited his colleague, he decided to “act” since the lady did not refrain from being in company of other men.
Nigerian Tribune gathered that late in the night, the male corps member used a pillow to gag his proposed wife and strangulated her to death before escaping.
this is coming after a female corper was recently raped to death
Female corper raped to death
National Youth Corps members serving in Borno State have been thrown into mourning following the gruesome killing of their colleague, Miss Grace Adie Ushang by unknown persons. Adie was allegedly raped to death last weekend and her body dumped beside a river at the Customs Area, Maiduguri.
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i am tired of how Nigerian women do not take care of their physical appearance, we leave ourselves, by the way the men also apply, but am talking about women nowwhat is wrong with having a facials to get rid of pimples, just spending 30mins once a week to steam the face can help remove pores and dirtgoing to the gym or just doing 30mins cardio at home 3times a week can do alot,I am not going to lie, Nigerian women are really beautiful, the only thing lacking is the zeal to make oneself attractive WITH a little efforti dont care how beautiful your cloth looks or how much you spent, its notting if you cant take care of your bodyNow about Omotola Jalade(NOT SURE ABT MY SPELLING), the excuse that most nigerian women use now is that just because you have children you should be fat and not care for yourselves again, that is complete crap Angry, having children does'nt mean its the end of the world, u could still take 5mins out of you time daily to do a little cardio and not forgetting eating healthy
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Posted by Politics X on September 14, 2009 at 1:11am
Why should the Minister for Information and Communication, Prof Dora Akuyili, decide to employ the services of the former NTA bosses, namely Mr. Ben Bruce and Mr. Tony Iredia, to rescue.The public may likely not be pleased with such because it looked orchestrated. In short, the duo should be the last to be consulted in this issue because of their remote involvements on the issue of N8billion refurbishment of the NTA equipment. As a matter of fact the two immediate past Directors General of NTA can easily be roped in as people wanting to cover their own past contributions to what has now become controversial. They stand involved.It should be simpler for the NTA current management to rise up to the defense of the matter, throwing more light to the inquest rather than this Akuyili’s PR try . For all that is necessary to be noted is that it has been proven that to purchase a new equipment would cost almost the same, if not less than, what is now the case.Nigeria should not remain just where frauds are committed and the perpetrators go free, without properly accounted for. Let this matter be properly investigated as the NCC’s License issue.Mr. Effiong Israel, 79 Tayo Kehinde Street, Egbeda-Lagos.
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Everton Footballer Joseph Yobo beat every man out there to it. 2008 winner of Most Beautiful Girl in Nigeria is no longer fancy free. She hooked and looks like marriage is calling., Yobo is a responsible man so you might want to take that seriously. She is so involved that her mom knows about it [...]
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Everton Footballer Joseph Yobo beat every man out there to it. 2008 winner of Most Beautiful Girl in Nigeria is no longer fancy free. She hooked and looks like marriage is calling., Yobo is a responsible man so you might want to take that seriously. She is so involved that her mom knows about it – The pictures shows they are so met to be together. You think otherwise?
Adaeze Igwe and Joseph Yobo.
The queen that would love to eat anything she sees but can’t,Plans to head to the New York Film Academy next month to study Communications and have we mentioned that her mum that is still a career lawyer is still a beauty to behold.? Adaeze carries her mom’s genes 100%.
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A MUM of six has ditched her kids and run off with her son’s 18-YEAR-OLD best pal.
Debbie Mallinson, 36, fled her council semi after telling her shocked children: “I can’t help who I fall in love with.”
She then moved in with baby-faced toyboy Adam Caban in Falmouth, Cornwall.
Mallinson’s eldest sons, aged 15 and ten, are now living with relatives. Her other kids — a girl of eight, a boy of six, a boy of five and a girl aged three — are in foster care.
And an ex-partner of the runaway mum branded her a “disgrace” last night — and sneered: “She falls in love more often than she gives birth.”
The man, who fathered three of the brunette’s six children, hit out after she deserted her young family.
Mallinson fled her council home after climbing out of a window and sprinting down the front path into a waiting cab.
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Her 15-year-old eldest son had earlier caught her on the phone telling Adam, his best friend, that she loved him. Before she left, Mallinson told her children: “I can’t help who I fall in love with.”
But her disgusted ex said: “It breaks my heart — she doesn’t give a stuff about anyone but her.”
Mallinson, whose children were fathered by FOUR dads, is living with baby-faced Adam at his sister’s home in Falmouth, Cornwall.
Before walking out two weeks ago, she phoned social services saying she couldn’t cope and was going off to live with her lover.
Her furious former partner said last night: “This woman is an absolute disgrace as a mother.
“First she has an affair with her son’s best friend, then she dumps her kids to move in with him.
“She’s now living with him while her youngest children and my kids are staying with strangers. It breaks my heart and makes my blood boil in equal measure.
“She’s told social services she wants the kids back eventually and wants to bring them up with her new boyfriend.
“But they are living with his sister and don’t have any money.
“Anyway, she can’t just turn up and be a mum when she likes. It is just not fair on the children.”
Mallinson — whose youngsters cannot be identified — stormed out of her three-bed semi after a blazing row with her teenage son.
He and his eldest brother, who is ten, are now living with their grandparents and father respectively.
But the lads’ four siblings — a girl aged eight, a boy of six, a boy aged five, and a three-year-old girl — have been put in to foster care.
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Mallinson’s former partner added: “The first I knew about it was when my mum called me.
“At first I thought it was a wind-up — but I wouldn’t put anything past her.
“Her eldest son found out something was going on when he overheard his mum on the phone telling his best mate she loved him.
“He is now living with his grandparents in another part of the country — but he has lost his best friend and his mum.
“Through no fault of his own, his life has been completely turned upside down.
“I’ve known this woman for a long time and she falls in love more often than she gives birth. The sad thing is that it will never last — but it could scar the kids for life.”
Mallinson was unavailable for comment.
And her 18-year-old lover cowered behind his mum when The Sun visited his family’s address.
The dumbstruck teenager stood in the hallway as his mum said: “He’s 18 and can do what he likes. They’re just friends anyway.”
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The monarch will be spending the day privately at Windsor Castle with the Duke of Edinburgh.
Union flags will be flown above Government buildings until sunset in her honour, while the King's Troop Royal Horse Artillery will provide a 41-Gun Salute in central London using six 13 pounder First World War guns drawn by Irish draught horses.
The gun salute tribute takes place in Green Park this year because of refurbishments under way in the usual venue, Hyde Park.
Princess Elizabeth Alexandra Mary was born at 2.40am on April 21 1926 - the first child of the then Duke and Duchess of York - at 17 Bruton Street, the Mayfair home of her mother's parents, the Earl and Countess of Strathmore.
She is the great-great-grandchild of Queen Victoria, the last female sovereign.
The octogenarian Sovereign carried out 417 engagements in 2008.
Queen Elizabeth II, who is Head of State, the Armed Forces, the Commonwealth and the Church of England, has been married to Prince Philip for more than 61 years, has four children and is grandmother to eight grandchildren.
Her official birthday in June, is celebrated with the Trooping the Colour parade.
The Duke reached his own milestone last week. He became the longest serving consort in British history, overtaking the record of 57 years and 70 days set by Queen Charlotte, wife of King George III.
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