LAGOS: Wife discovers missing husband’s corpse in his office

Adegboyega's office
| credits: Comfort Oseghale

 

 

There was confusion in the Bariga area of Lagos State last week when the decomposing corpse of an estate agent, simply identified as Adegboyega, was discovered by his wife and neighbours in his office.

 

A resident anonymously told PUNCH Metro that Adegboyega’s wife had shown up at her spouse’s office on Odugbuwa Street, Bariga, because he had not come home.

 

Due to the nature of his work, Adegboeyga used to pass the night at his office from Monday to Thursday and returned home every Friday for the weekend. His phone number was also said to have been unavailable throughout that weekend.

When Adegboyega’s wife and neighbours reportedly knocked on his office doors, they perceived an offensive odour emanating from the locked doors.

 

Afraid that the odour could be something sinister, Adegboyega’s neighbours advised the wife to lodge a complaint at the Bariga Police Division.

 

Adegboyega’s wife returned a few hours later with some policemen, who then broke into the office to discover Adegboyega’s already decomposing corpse, covered with a cloth. The door to his office was said to have been locked from outside, making residents to allege murder.

 

A neighbour anonymously said, “The last time we saw Adegboyega was two weeks ago, when he was rejoicing that he had been selected as the next councilor for ward B in the next local government election. Nobody can say for sure what must have transpired the Friday of his death because we cannot recall seeing anything suspicious. We suspect foul play though because the door of his office was locked from the outside; someone must have done that.”

 

Due to the state of the corpse, PUNCH Metro gathered that the policemen were unable to evacuate it immediately, but had to call on some health workers to take the decomposing remains to the mortuary.

 

 

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Ex-San Diego mayor to be sentenced for harassing several women

SAN DIEGO - Bob Filner has almost vanished from public view since a defiant resignation speech as San Diego mayor amid widespread allegations that he sexually harassed women. He returns to the spotlight at least once more.
The former 10-term congressman will be sentenced Monday for one felony and two misdemeanours for placing a woman in a headlock, kissing another woman and grabbing the buttocks of a third. He pleaded guilty in October in an agreement with prosecutors, who will recommend that he get three months of home confinement and three years of probation.

Filner, who is divorced, was convicted of felony false imprisonment for restraining a woman against her will at a fundraiser on March 6 and applying additional force when she resisted. His attorney said it was a headlock.
The battery counts are for kissing a woman on the lips without permission at a "Meet the Mayor" event on April 6 and grabbing another woman's buttocks at a May 25 rally to clean up Fiesta Island in Mission Bay. None of the victims have been identified.

Filner's former communications director, Irene McCormack Jackson became the first to go public with sexual harassment allegations in July. She has filed a lawsuit against Filner and the city, claiming her boss asked her to work without panties, demanded kisses, told her he wanted to see her naked and dragged her in a headlock while whispering in her ear.

Nearly 20 women have publicly identified themselves as targets of Filner's unwanted advances, including kissing, groping and requests for dates. They include a retired Navy rear admiral, a San Diego State University dean and a great-grandmother who volunteers answering senior citizens' questions at City Hall.


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Newlywed Couple lure man to his death with a Craigslist ad because they wanted to kill someone together

 

In this Tuesday, Dec. 3, 2013 photo, Miranda K. Barbour is led into District Judge Ben Apfelbaum's office in Sunbury, Pa., by Sunbury policeman Travis Bremigen. Elytte Barbour told officers before his arrest Friday, Dec. 6, that he and his wife, Miranda, had planned to kill before, but their plans never worked out until last month when Troy LaFerrara responded to an online posting that promised companionship in return for money, authorities said. Elytte Barbour, 22, and Miranda Barbour, 18, face criminal homicide charges in LaFerrara's death. His body was found Nov. 12 in an alley in Sunbury, a small city about 100 miles northwest of Philadelphia. MANDATORY CREDIT Photo: Mike Staugaitis, AP

Several police officers lead Elyett Barbour from District Justice Benjamin Apfelbaum's office in Sunbury, Pa., on Friday, Dec. 6, 2013, after being charged in the stabbing death of Troy LaFerrara. Barbour told officers before his arrest Friday, that he and his wife, Miranda Barbour, had planned to kill before, but their plans never worked out until last month when LaFerrara responded to an online posting that promised companionship in return for money, authorities said. Elytte Barbour, 22, and Miranda Barbour, 18, face criminal homicide charges in LaFerrara's death. His body was found Nov. 12 in an alley in Sunbury, a small city about 100 miles northwest of Philadelphia. MANDATORY CREDIT Photo: Larry Deklinski, AP






SUNBURY, Pa. (AP) — A couple married for just three weeks lured a man to his death with a Craigslist ad because they wanted to kill someone together, police said.

Elytte Barbour told officers before his arrest Friday night that he and his wife, Miranda, had planned to kill before, but their plans never worked out until last month when Troy LaFerrara responded to an online posting that promised companionship in return for money, authorities said.

Elytte Barbour told investigators "that they committed the murder because they just wanted to murder someone together," police said in the affidavit.

Elytte Barbour, 22, and Miranda Barbour, 18, face criminal homicide charges in LaFerrara's death. His body was found Nov. 12 in an alley in Sunbury, a small city about 100 miles northwest of Philadelphia. The couple had recently moved to nearby Selinsgrove from

Sunbury's police chief, Steve Mazzeo, said Saturday he did not want to comment on the case or the couple's motives since it was still an active investigation.

According to Sunbury police, Elytte Barbour told investigators he hid under a blanket in the backseat of the couple's SUV as his wife picked up LaFerrara at a mall Nov. 11. He told police that, on his wife's signal, he wrapped a cord around LaFerrara's neck, restraining him while Miranda Barbour stabbed him.

The 42-year-old Port Trevorton man was stabbed about 20 times, police said.

Miranda Barbour was charged Tuesday, a day after police first contacted her. She initially denied knowing LaFerrara, but her story evolved as investigators gathered evidence, including the discovery that the last call received by the victim's cellphone was made from her number, according to an affidavit in her case.

That affidavit said Miranda Barbour acknowledged meeting the victim in Selinsgrove and driving with him to Sunbury, where they parked. She said LaFerrara groped her and she took a knife from between the front seats and stabbed him after he put his hand around her throat, according to the affidavit.

Police said Miranda Barbour had told them she purchased cleaning supplies at a department store after stabbing LaFerrara, then picked up her husband and took him to a strip club for his birthday. On Friday, police said, Elytte Barbour told them he was the one who had purchased the cleaning products, an account investigators said was backed up by surveillance footage.

Following his wife's arrest, Elytte Barbour told The Daily Item of Sunbury that Miranda Barbour, whom he married Oct. 22, regularly hired herself out as a "companion" to men she met on various websites, a business venture he said he supported because it didn't involve sexual contact.

Barbour said his wife made anywhere from $50 to $850 by meeting with men for such activities as having dinner together or walking around a mall. The ads she placed on websites including Craigslist all said upfront that sex was not part of the deal, he said.

"She is not a prostitute," he said. "What she does is meet men who have broken marriages or have no one in their lives, and she meets with them and has delightful conversation."

Elytte Barbour didn't have an attorney at his arraignment Friday night. Telephone messages left for his wife's public defenders Saturday were not immediately returned.

Investigators also plan to look into the death of a man with whom Miranda Barbour had a 1-year-old child, Mazzeo said, but he would not say if there is a suspicion of foul play.

 

 

 

 

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Teen dies aboard Delta Air Lines flight from Seattle to Atlanta

A 16-year-old boy suffered a medical emergency and died on board a Delta Air Lines flight en route to Atlanta from Seattle Saturday morning.

Authorities told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution that the boy, whose name has not been released, was originally from the Atlanta area and was en route with an unspecified number of family members to celebrate Christmas with relatives there. The boy's father is in the military and is stationed in Washington.

Spokane (Wash.) Fire Assistant Chief Brian Schaeffer told the paper that the boy began suffering distress approximately 30 minutes after Delta Flight 128 took off at 9 a.m. local time. The aircraft was diverted to Spokane, where emergency technicians met the plane at a gate.

Passenger Joe Ryan said that the pilot came on the plane's intercom shortly after takeoff and informed the passengers of the emergency. Ryan said he believed the teen and his family were sitting somewhere behind him, and the boy was taken to the rear of the craft, where flight attendants attempted life-saving measures.

According to The Associated Press, officials said the teen had an incident in-flight, and passed away from natural causes prior to the emergency landing.

Schaeffer told the Journal-Constitution that the teen did have a pre-existing condition, but family members had said that he was able to fly. It was not immediately clear what the pre-existing condition was. An autopsy is pending.

The flight had been scheduled to land in Atlanta at 4 p.m. local time. Delta spokesman Michael Thomas told the paper that the airline was working to rearrange travel for some of the 258 passengers. A relief crew was expected to take over the plane and fly the remaining passengers to Atlanta, with landing estimated to be at midnight Sunday local time.



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Idris Elba Confirms He's Having a Baby, Reveals Father's Death

Sorry ladies but Idris Elba is officially sooo off the market!

During an appearance on Oprah's Next Chapter, the Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom star revealed that London-based makeup artist Naiyana Garth is indeed expecting his baby.

"My girlfriend's having a baby, yes," he told Oprah.

Elba made his first public appearance with a pregnant Garth at the Harper's Bazaar Women of the Year Awards in London last month. This would be his second child. He also has an 11-year-old daughter named Isan.

The 41-year-old actor also revealed that he found out he was having a baby soon after his father's death. Winston Elba died in September after a battle with lung cancer. Elba recalled his West African family's shock at the cancer diagnosis. "Africans don't think cancer is something that happens to us," he said. It's only been three months and Elba says he has hardly give himself time to grieve and hasn't quite accepted his father's death.

Our condolences, and congratulations, to Idris Elba!



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