16-yr-old student held for stabbing school mate to death while testing efficacy of charm

A 16-year-old pupil identified as Kehinde Timilehin will spend some more time in detention for fatally stabbing his schoolmate, Favour Matthew, in the chest while testing the efficacy of a charm believed to prevent the penetration of sharp objects like a knife and cutlass.

The order was made during a session by Chief Magistrate, Mr Adesoji Adegboye of an Ado-Ekiti Chief Magistrates’ Court, on Wednesday who added that the suspect who committed the crime on Thursday, December 6, 2018, after school hours, be kept at the State Children Correctional Centre pending advice from the state Director of Public Prosecutions.

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The presiding judge later adjourned the case till January 18, 2019, for further hearing.

According to reports, the victim died at the Ekiti State University Teaching Hospital, Ado-Ekiti moments after the charm failed Mathew as the weapon with which Timilehin allegedly attacked him penetrated his body.

The suspect was later apprehended and detained at the Ekiti State Criminal Investigation Department after it was confirmed that his schoolmate had passed on.

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