A Nigerian businessman has been
jailed for 12 years after he was found guilty of stabbing his wife as she slept
in their home. Oluwabusayo Abegunde, 38, (pictured above) stabbed his wife
repeatedly with a kitchen knife after he went through her phone and discovered
she was seeing someone else.
Esther Abegunde, 33, told her
husband of ten years that their marriage was over and moved into a spare room
on February 16th 2013. Abegunde attacked her with the knife after he discovered
why she wanted to leave him. Oluwabusayo stabbed Esther in the chest, arm, and
punctured her left lung, according to the Manchester Evening News.
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As Esther began to bleed to death
Abegunde agreed to call an ambulance after making her promise she would tell
police she had caused the wounds herself. To make it believable, he cut himself
with the knife to make it look like he had also been attacked before emergency
services arrived.
Esther survived the brutal attack
and later told the police the truth. Abegunde, who has businesses in Nigeria
and was a respected member of Manchester’s Nigerian community was arrested and
charged with attempted m****r.
He was found not guilty of attempted
m****r at an earlier trial but the jury at Manchester crown court found him
guilty of grievous bodily harm this week and he was jailed for 12 years.
The former couple have two sons,
aged eight and four.
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