Murder: Yewande’s landlord told me Lowo mistakenly stabbed himself – Witness

Against the plethora of prosecution  evidence against the female lawyer, Yewande Oyediran, who allegedly killed her husband, Lowo, last year, a defence witness (Michael Lana), on Wednesday told an Ibadan High Court that he was told by the couple’s landlord  that the deceased mistakenly stabbed himself with a knife.

Lana, a former Attorney General and Justice Commissioner in Oyo State, told the court that the couple’s landlord, Akinpelu Adelodun, once confessed to him in private that the late Lowo mistakenly stabbed himself with the knife he was holding, while about to stab his wife. He said that the landlord told him that he held Lowo’s hand to prevent him from stabbing his wife and in the process, he mistakenly stabbed himself in the neck.

Yewande, who is standing trial on a one-count charge of murder, was a staff of the Department of the Public Prosecution (DPP) in Oyo State of Ministry of Justice until the family squabbles which happened on February 2, 2017, at the Landlord’s Akobo area of Ibadan.

Lana was led-in evidence by the defendant’s counsel, Mr Leye Adepoju, where he said: ‎ “Adelodun told me that Yewande came out from the couple’s apartment screaming for help with the late husband in tow, chasing her with a knife. He also told me that at a stage the late husband had pinned down Yewande beside his car and had raised the knife to stab her, but that he (landlord) seized his hand from behind and that the wife was able to escape. In the process, the husband still being violent, mistakenly brought the knife down on his own neck.”