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Don’t deport me to Nigeria, says Bayode jailed for killing in UK

By Editor
05 January 2016   |   1:24 am
A KILLER has complained from his jail cell after being told that he would be deported to Nigeria when his sentence ends even though he’s never been to Africa. Junior Bayode was jailed for 11 years after being found guilty of the manslaughter of 15-year-old schoolboy, Sofyen Belamouadden, who was knifed to death in a…
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Bayode

A KILLER has complained from his jail cell after being told that he would be deported to Nigeria when his sentence ends even though he’s never been to Africa. Junior Bayode was jailed for 11 years after being found guilty of the manslaughter of 15-year-old schoolboy, Sofyen Belamouadden, who was knifed to death in a brutal attack on March 25, 2010.

The teen was chased by a gang of around 20 youths from a rival school and stabbed nine times in just 12 seconds in front of shocked commuters in Victoria Underground Station in central London. He was rushed to hospital, but was pronounced dead.

Five trials took place at the Old Bailey with 17 convictions resulting. Three of the attackers – Obi Nwokeh, Christopher Omoregrie and Samson Odegbune – who were aged between 19 and 20 at the time of their sentencing in April 2013 – were jailed for life after being found guilty of murder.

Bayode, however, says he only knows ‘the British way of life’ and has never even been to Nigeria, where his mother was born. He wrote: ‘I was born in Germany on January 29, 1993 and came to the UK with my mother as an infant when I was nine months old. I have neither travelled nor been to any other country since I arrived in the UK over 20 years ago.

“My past, my present and my future is firmly rooted in British soil, hence why I am struggling to understand why I have been served with a deportation order to a country I have never been to – Nigeria.”

4 Comments

  • Author’s gravatar

    Well, now you will learn another type of life….innit. The life of a child they took didn’t have a choice in the 12 secs he was knifed 19 times. My friend! Don’t complain. You are lucky you were not sent to Syria, Libya, Iraq or Afghanistan etc.

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      Dont crack jokes robotically with countries having humanitarian tragedies. You have warm blood in those veins so why not organize humanitarian mission to syria as some people do? Remember fate is capricious and even more people perished in the nigerian crisis 1966–1967 than presently in syria, iraq,,afghanistan,somalia,pakistan put together..And even now nigeria is gradually being pakistanized by insurgency…

      • Author’s gravatar

        My apologies sir for not communicating clearly to you.
        My point was as clear as I could put it and your comment baffles.
        On the point of getting engaged in missions, it may well be best to ignore your ignorant point of view more so as you don’t know what I do or did. It would be illuminating however to interrogate your self righteous position and ask what YOU have done or is doing in the same regard. Get it?

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      He is unlucky to b sent to Nigeria,Syria will b a straight return to Germany his birth place..Germans want pple frm Syria so badly now..U get?