Emmanuel Kalejaiye is the 21-year-old
Nigerian man who stabbed his own mother, 41-year-old Tolu Kalejaiye, to death
at their home in the UK.
Emmanuel who has been diagnosed with a
mental ailment, stabbed his mother 40 times in the head, face, neck, upper
limbs & hands during a frenzied knife attack in September 2013. His mum
until her death was an accountant with the Camden Council in England.
When interrogated, Emmanuel admitted to
killing his mother. He said, “I admit killing my mother by stabbing her. I
did this because she subjected me to a lifetime of physical and mental abuse.
She used the Bible to rationalize what she did to me. I believe she manipulated
and brainwashed me. I have been very depressed for a long time. I have tried to
overcome it but I couldn’t take it anymore”.
The young man has been sentenced to life
imprisonment. A UK court had in April 2014 found Emmanuel guilty of
manslaughter and not murder due to his mental ailment. At a resumed hearing of
the case on Thursday June 18th, a telephone message she sent with her phone to
her boyfriend, Leo Shogunle, when she was being attacked by her son was played.
In the audio, she was heard calling on her
son to stop stabbing her until the telephone became chillingly quiet. Her
boyfriend raced to the house to find her in the pool of her own blood.
Medical experts told the court that
Emmanuel has been suffering from Chronic depression.
Ynaija
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