Olubunmi Abodunde faces trial for k!lling his wife in UK months after relocation
Friends raise funds for extended family to travel to UK to get kids
A Nigerian man, Olubunmi Abodunde, is in police custody after the lifeless body of his wife was found by the police.
A police team responding to a distress call from a property on Exning Road, New Market at 9.55am on Tuesday 28 November, entered the building and discovered the body of Mrs Taiwo Owoeye Abodunde.
According to a release by the police, paramedics were also in attendance, but the victim, a woman aged in her 40s, was sadly declared deceased at the scene.
Two men, a 47-year-old man, later identified as Abodunde and a 38-year-old man, who was not named by the police, were arrested on suspicion of murd3r. Both men were taken to Martlesham Police Investigation Centre for questioning.
“Olubunmi Abodundee, 47, of Exning Road, Newmarket, has been charged with murder”, the police said in the statement.
The 38-year-old man was released and will face no further action.
Officers asked anyone who was on Exning Road on Tuesday 28 November between 8.30 am and 9.30 am to contact Suffolk Constabulary, in particular drivers of vehicles with dash-cameras fitted.
Providing more context, a Nigerian in the UK, Olunife, said the couple relocated to the UK only this year.
The relationship between the couple broke down a few months into their arrival and settlement in the UK.
When the relationship got worse, the wife allegedly filed for a restraining order against her husband.
In spite of the order, the man allegedly plotted and executed his plan to eliminate the woman.
Olunife wrote:
“A Nigerian man killed his wife in the UK, they relocated this year. She got a restraining order from the police and this man still found a way to kill her, 3 children are left parentless. Mother dead, father heading to a lifetime in prison.”
In a follow-up post, she said the children had been taken over by social services as the extended family of the couple are back in Nigeria.
Friends of the couple are now raising funds via Go-fund-me to enable extended family members to procure visas and enter the United Kingdom to take possession of the couple’s three children.
They have so far realised three thousand pounds sterling of the total target of 10,000 pounds sterling.
