During the trial, police prosecutor, H.M. Falowo, called four witnesses, which included the deceased’s wife; a neighbour; a police officer and a pathologist. While giving evidence, the wife of the deceased, Mrs Babalola, said she heard a gunshot and immediately ran out and saw the convict holding a gun.

’I saw the defendant coming out of my husband’s room and then I took to my heels with the fear that he could also shoot me. Thereafter, I rushed to my husband’s room and met him on his bed in the pool of his blood, shouting with his last breath that Mr Komolafe shot him. I rushed out and called people to come to my aid, but my husband died in the process,” she told the court

Delivering judgement in the case, the presiding judge, Justice Yemi Fasanmi, said there were contradictions in the defendant’s statement. He described the convict’s claim that some persons conspired to implicate him was mere assumption.

He said the prosecution had proved its case beyond reasonable doubt and that there was direct evidence that linked the convict to the scene of the crime as well as being responsible for the death of the deceased.