I Stabbed My Father’s Friend To Death For Attempting To Rape Me – SS3 Student

A 16-year-old girl, Timilehin Taiwo is currently in the custody of the Lagos State Police Command for stabbing to death a 49-year-old Babatunde Ishola, over allegation the deceased tried to rape her.

On the 7th of March, 2020, officers at Oke Odo Police Station received a distress call suggesting that a man named Ishola had been stabbed to death by a teenage girl.

Ishola, who was said to be a security guard in a school at Aboru area of Lagos State, died from his injuries after he was stabbed by Timilehin.

According to the SS3 student, who also resides within same Aburo, the stabbing occurred as a result of her attempt to escape sexual harassment by Ishola.

She said the deceased, who happens to be her father’s friend, invited her to his house to assist him in fetching water.

She stated that an invitation of this nature was not strange to her since the man lived in the house alone and would regularly plead with her to come assist him occasionally.

However, on the 7th March when the tragic event took place, Timilehin claims that while she was helping out with the water, Ishola allegedly attempted to rape her.

In her statement to the police, the teenager revealed that she picked a knife from the room and stabbed him while he was trying to defile her, stressing that it was all in self-defense.

Timilehin, authorities say, was taken to the hospital for medical and forensic examination.

Lagos State Commissioner of Police, CP Hakeem Odumosu, ordered the immediate transfer of the case to the State Criminal Investigation Department Yaba for discreet investigation.

Homicide detectives led by the Divisional Police Officer, Oke Odo visited the crime scene at Ogundele Street, Aboru, where the corpse of the 49-year-old man was found and evacuated to a hospital for post mortem examination.