Nurudeen Bakare, 41, who is on trial for the murder of his mother, said in court in Lagos that he has been hearing voices encouraging him to kill someone else while he is incarcerated.
Nurudeen, who spent 12 years living overseas, is currently being tried before Justice Modupe Nico-Clay.
The accused was 37 years old when he reportedly used a kitchen knife to stab his 65-year-old mother, Abosede, to death.
The defendant, who was taken from the Ikoyi Custodial Centre, declared himself to be a patient of a mental health facility when the matter was placed before the court on Thursday to begin the trial.
I’ve been hearing voices in the prison telling me to kill someone, he claimed.
I’ve been hearing my mother’s voice telling me that I must commit murder in the jail.
At the Ikoyi jail on October 11, I even tried to murder someone.
After telling him to stop, Justice Nico-Clay ordered a prison guard into the courtroom and told him to keep the defendant away from other prisoners.
The trial’s start date was postponed by the judge to February 2, 2023.
On June 27, 2022, four years after he is accused of fatally stabbing his mother in the stomach and neck, Nurudeen was charged in court.
The Lagos State Government has filed a single murder charge against him.
Mrs. Titilayo Olanrewaju-Daudu, the state’s prosecutor, informed the court that the event happened on June 6, 2018, at around 11 p.m., at 49, Oremeji Street, Ilasamaja, in the Mushin region of Lagos State.
On July 4, 2018, a Yaba Chief Magistrates’ Court issued Bakare his initial remand.
According to the prosecution, police sergeant Modupe Olaluwoye, the defendant and his 65-year-old mother, Bosede, got into a fight about some inherited property.
“My Lord, he took a knife during the dispute and stabbed her in the stomach and neck.
He confessed to perpetrating the crime while being questioned, and he even signed a confessional statement, according to Olaluwoye.
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