Remember the Skye bank staff allegedly murdered by her husband last year Titilayo Omozoje?
A renowned pathologist, Prof. John Oladapo Obafunwa
yesterday told a Lagos High Court, Ikeja, presided by Justice Lateefat Okunnu,
that about 76 stab wounds were identified on the body of a former Skye Bank
worker, Titilayo Omozoje, who was allegedly murdered by her husband on June 24,
2011. Obafunwa, a principal prosecution witness in the ongoing murder trial of
a youth pastor, Akolade Arowolo over the death of his wife, Omozoje in his
testimony, stated that during the autopsy, he discovered that the late banker
had a minimum of 76 stab wounds inflicted on her by someone.
Led in evidence by the Lagos State Director of Public
Prosecution, Mrs. Olabisi Ogungbesan, Obafunwa also testified that the stab
wounds from her chest to her abdomen were concentrated on the left side. According
to the pathologist, he conducted both external and internal examination of the
deceased’s body during autopsy on July 4 and noticed multiple stab wounds as
well as some incised wounds on her chest, arm and abdomen.
He further revealed that during the internal examination
of the body, he found various wounds consistent with injuries from a sharp
weapon with a single edge blade as well as a double-edged blade. The wounds, he
added, affected the left eye, right eye, upper chest area, right chest and
collarbone left armpit. It also included a 10x5cm rectangular area that has
multiple individual injuries on the left side of her chest and breast overlying
the heart.
Kolade the murderer
Obafunwa, who supported his testimony with slides of
pictures on a compact disc relayed inside the court room, stated that the
autopsy revealed a gaping wound, which was revealed as a black hole in the
chest region.
According to him, the chest wall was lost due to multiple
stab wounds, there was damage to the diaphragm, left side of the liver, breast
area and repeated stab wounds to the lungs and injuries. He further revealed
that his forensic investigations showed that the injuries could not have been
self inflicted as the penetration was from the chest to the back and there were
stab wounds to the stomach wall.
“The final result of the autopsy is that the death was
caused by multiple injuries in the chest and abdomen due to multiple sharp and
long force trauma”, he said.
He also identified an alleged weapon, which he confirmed
was consistent with some of the wounds on the deceased’s body. Also on his examination
of the defendant, Obafunwa stated that there were wounds on his hand and
abdomen and he also had a limping gait, which he admitted may be because he
jumped to the ground from the fourth floor.
He however added that the 12 injuries he examined were
not penetrating but superficial and two of them might fall into the category of
defence wounds though not all the injuries fall into the time frame the
incident was said to have occurred as they might have been on the body earlier.
In his reaction to the defence counsel, Olanrewaju Ajanaku, who alleged that
the pathologist was the one that inflicted the stab wounds on the deceased when
the corpse was in his custody, wondered how he could do that when he was not
insane.
Further hearing on the matter has been adjourned till
October 22, 2012, when the prosecution is expected to take its last witness.
THE GUARDIAN
THE GUARDIAN
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