charged Nigerian woman Temitope Adebamiro with first degree murder after she killed her husband Adeyinka for having an affair with her sister.  

Mrs Adebamiro, 35, told the local New Castle County police that her husband cheated severally on her, including with her sister and their nanny’s daughter. She, said, however, that she did not kill her husband as he died after stabbing himself. 

Following a distress call from the couple’s 1300 block of Healy Court home earlier this week, the police said they found Mr Adebamiro in a pool of blood and a knife pierced into his neck. His wife told investigators her husband had been cheating on her with various women and had ordered her back to Nigeria multiple times to enable him time to frolic. 

Temitope, with who Adeyinka had two children, explained they had been married for more than 10 years, during which he had physically abused her, even while pregnant with their children. She said husband sent her to Nigeria for several months and upon her return in December, she had to stay in a hotel near the Philadelphia airport for four days because her husband refused to let her into their home. 

She added that he, later paid for her to fly back to Nigeria for a few more months and it was during this time that she learned he had spent Christmas with the nanny’s daughter. According to Temitope, her husband later flew out to Nigeria and came back with her to Philadelphia. 

Mrs Adebamiro told detectives that at one point, she saw several texts and images in her husband’s phone, including images of her sister and the nanny’s daughter. Temitope said an argument ensued between them after he discovered the photos and her husband began to delete them. 

As he yelled at her, Temitope told police there was a power outage at which time she went to the kitchen until power returned. Investigators checked with Delmarva Power, which indicated no such power outage occurred at that time, police said. 

Temitope then told police that when the power returned, she found her husband in the first-floor bedroom lying in the bed and as she got closer to him, she saw a knife on the ground which she picked up and took to the kitchen. According to her, as she put it away, she noticed blood on the tip and that’s when she realised that he was stabbed. 

Mrs Adebamiro has been charged with first-degree murder and other charges, arraigned and committed to the Baylor Women’s Correctional Institution where she is being held without bail. If convicted, she could face the death penalty.