{"id":78168,"date":"2025-08-04T14:09:58","date_gmt":"2025-08-04T14:09:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=78168"},"modified":"2025-08-04T14:11:52","modified_gmt":"2025-08-04T14:11:52","slug":"two-charged-with-murder-after-ayowale-aladejana-was-fatally-stabbed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2025\/08\/04\/two-charged-with-murder-after-ayowale-aladejana-was-fatally-stabbed\/","title":{"rendered":"Two charged with murder after Ayowale Aladejana was fatally stabbed"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/alexis.lindaikejisblog.com\/photos\/shares\/o1_1754294221.webp\" alt=\"26-year-old Nigerian man st@bbed to d3ath in UK\" width=\"593\" height=\"333\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A man, Ben Wazabanga, 23, of Fairfax Road and a woman, Ronique Belfon, also 23, of Morinsbury Road, Bedford have both been charged with murder following the fatal stabbing of a man in south-east London.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Ayowale Aladejana was found with stab wounds at a residential address in Monson Road, New Cross, shortly after 19:25 BST on Saturday.<\/p>\n<div>The incident happened across the road from what was the Duke of Albany pub, which featured in the 2004 film Shaun Of The Dead.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Despite the efforts of emergency services, the 26-year-old from South Norwood, Croydon died at the scene, the Metropolitan Police said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Ben Wazabang was also charged with possession of a knife.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Both were remanded in custody and are due to appear at separate magistrates&#8217; courts in Croydon and Westminster on Monday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A post-mortem examination gave a preliminary cause of death as a stab wound to the chest.<\/p>\n<div>Mr Aladejana&#8217;s family is being supported by specially trained officers.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>A forensics tent has been set up on the pavement, and flowers have been left outside the terraced house.<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>A man, Ben Wazabanga, 23, of Fairfax Road and a woman, Ronique Belfon, also 23, of Morinsbury Road, Bedford have both been&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":78169,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-78168","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Ayowale-Aledejana.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78168","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78168"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78168\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78171,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78168\/revisions\/78171"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}