An 18-year-old boy, Mubarak Akadiri, has told a Magistrate Court in Akure, Ogun State, how he killed his mom’s boss, a 62-year-old retired head teacher, Mrs Sidikat Adamolekun.

The defendant said he attacked and killed the victim after she caught him stealing her android phone valued at N66,000.

He committed the hideous crime on Tuesday morning, November 14, 2023, at the victim’s residence in Simiileolowa Quarters, Arigidi Akoko.

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Mubarak, who’s the son of the victim’s housemaid, said: “As usual, I went to the house to work and I later came back to steal her Samsung phone.

Unfortunately, the deceased caught me after I’d stolen the phone. So, she held me. In an attempt to escape, I used a wooden stool to hit her head, but the old woman kept shouting for help.

Thereafter, I hit her repeatedly on the head until she fell and died.” He was charged with a single count of murder, but his plea was not taken.