UK court serves Nigerian man life imprisonment over murder of ex-girlfriend

[NigerianEye - Nigeria] - 5/02/2026
A UK-based Nigerian man, Adedapo Adegbola has been sentenced to life in prison for murdering a woman he worked with after she ended their brief ‘controlling relationship’.Adegbola fatally stabbed 23-year-old Stephanie Irons in the neck at her home in Mapperley, Nottinghamshire, on 21 October.Nottingham Crown Court heard he “had become obsessed” with Irons and planned to kill her. On Thursday, he was ordered to serve a minimum of 25 years following his guilty plea last month.Speaking in court, Irons’s mother said: “I have no words to say how broken I am to have lost her in such a horrific (…)
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