sentence in the UK yesterday for the brutal murder of
his wife.
Jealous Adiddo blamed the devil and his Nigerian
neighbour for forcing him to stab his wife 15 times
then running her over with their family car.
Minta Adiddo said he thought his wife, Akua
Agyeman and the mother of his two children was
having an affair with the Nigerian neighbour.
According to Mail Online, the 32-year-old mother of
two died two months after the brutal stabbing, which
was witnessed by her five-year-old daughter.
Adiddo, 38, was given a life sentence by the Old
Bailey Court after being convicted of murder, with a
minimum term of 17 years.
The Mail Online reported that The Sainsbury's worker
from Enfield, North London, had pleaded guilty to
manslaughter, although he denied murder.
The court heard he suspected his wife was having an
affair with their neighbour Oladapo Etti-Williams in
October 2012.
Etti-Williams denied it, but said they exchanged
three to four 'sometimes flirtatious' texts a day – and
phone records showed they had sometimes sent as
many as 80 messages in one day.
On November 5, Adiddo stabbed his wife with a large
kitchen knife in their bedroom while their one-year-
old daughter slept in a cot next to them.
Ms Agyeman managed to escape through the living
room window, waking neighbours with her screams.
But her husband chased her down and stabbed her
again in the street as she lay on the ground, leaving
her with 15 separate stab wounds.
When he realised she still wasn't dead he got in his
car and tried to run her over, almost ploughing into
shocked witnesses who were tending to her.
Ms Agyeman's last words as she lay injured were to
ask if her children were all right.
She fought for her life in hospital for nearly two
months, but she was so badly injured that she would
have been permanently paralysed if she had
survived.
Adiddo fled the scene but was arrested after police
spotted him driving his car shortly the next day still
wearing his blood-stained shirt.
In a phone call to a relative he admitted stabbing his
wife and said he planned to kill himself before police
caught up with him.
When Ms Agyeman was in the the Royal London
Hospital, Adiddo sent her a Christmas card ascribing
his behaviour to 'Satan' and 'devils'.
'I know the devil used Williams to destroy our family,'
he wrote. 'Please, please, please, I need forgiveness
from you – open yourself to God.'
In victim impact statements read to the court, Ms
Agyeman's family said the 'vibrant, sociable and
intelligent' 32-year-old was 'irreplaceable.'
The judge heard her relatives in Ghana were now
struggling financially without her support.
They said they had accepted Adiddo as a son and
treated him with respect and dignity 'but all he has
done is inflict pain and suffering on our family'.
The court heard her two daughters are now being
cared for by relatives but the family are 'forever
saddened' she won't get to see them grow up.
Sentencing, judge Brian Barker QC said: 'I accept this
was not a planned killing but was done out of
frustration and temper, and in my view was cowardly
and selfish.
'This was a shocking waste of a vibrant life and loss
of a mother which will be long felt.
'I was moved by the words of her family who
described Akua as a loving sister, caring for her
children and extended family in Ghana, and
providing financially for them.
'They feel betrayed by your actions and find it very
difficult to move on. There is nothing we can do or
say to turn back the clock but she will not be
forgotten.'
There is nothing worse than a possessive and jealous
husband.
Rest in peace Mrs Akua.
Sent From David Aniemeka
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