{"id":409502,"date":"2026-02-05T15:32:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-05T15:32:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/409502\/"},"modified":"2026-02-05T15:32:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T15:32:09","slug":"man-jailed-for-murder-of-colleague-who-ended-their-relationship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/409502\/","title":{"rendered":"Man jailed for murder of colleague who ended their relationship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Before Adebola murdered Irons, the court heard colleagues had become concerned by his behaviour towards her.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">On 15 October, he purchased two knives &#8220;in order to kill&#8221; Irons. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Days later, he went to her home armed with a knife and inflicted a number of cuts to her as well as the fatal blow to the front of her neck. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The court heard after attacking her, Adegbola sat on the sofa &#8220;as she lay dead, or dying&#8221;.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He then left taking with him her phone and her keys, locking her inside before fleeing and disposing of his shirt, trousers and the murder weapon on his way. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;What you did on that day was to take the life of a young girl who was compassionate and accomplished and whose only fault was to love you at one time,&#8221; the judge said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Adegbola handed himself into the police on 22 October, after feeling to Hull, and later pleaded guilty to murder in January.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Before Adebola murdered Irons, the court heard colleagues had become concerned by his behaviour towards her. On 15&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":409503,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-409502","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-kingdom","8":"tag-gb","9":"tag-great-britain","10":"tag-greatbritain","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom","14":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409502","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=409502"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409502\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/409503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=409502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=409502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=409502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}