Crime: Another Nigerian & Briton Convicted Of Conspiracy To Murder

L-R; KINGSLEY OGUNDELE AND BRANDON JOLIE.

London (THEWILL) – Two teenage boys, Kingsley Ogundele, 19, Nigerian and Brandon Jolie, 19, Briton, have been convicted and sentenced to 14 and 18 years respectively in prison for conspiring and attempting to kill another 15 year-old teenager, who was pregnant for Jolie. We will not name the victim because of her age.

Brandon Jolie conspired with Kingsley Ogundele to kill his girlfriend who was pregnant and refused to abort the child. Jolie had feared having a child would make his mother cut off his allowance and also bring his rapping and music career to an end. Ogundele offered to help solve the problem; he said he would kill her. Jolie and Ogundele who were both students at Epping Forest College dreamed of making it to the top of the grime music scene in London, a Jury was told.

The Judge Paul Worsley of the Old Bailey Court also heard how Brandon Jolie lured his six months pregnant girlfriend to an isolated area near the Regent’s Canal in Islington, where she waited for him to turn up but never did, instead it was Ogundele who turned up carrying a pole. He was said to have hit her on the head with the metal pole, pushed her into the canal and held her to drown despite her pleas that she was pregnant. While he was at it, a passer-by Andrew Hall confronted him and rescued her.

In sentencing the teens, Judge Worsley told Ogundele: “You held her head under water and she felt she was going to die. I also do not overlook how vulnerable she was.”

To Jolie he said, “ When you discovered your 15 year-old girlfriend was pregnant and she was going to tell your mother you decided that she should abort the child.”

“When she refused, you together with Ogundele decided that she should be eliminated. You feared your mother would cutoff your student allowance, your blossoming music-producing ambitions would be frustrated and your lifestyle would be severely disrupted.”

“Together you decided that she should be murdered with her unborn child.”

He commended the passer-by, Mr. Andrew Hall for his courage and awarded him 500 British pounds saying, “Instead of passing by on the other side he tackled this young man, who ran off. By his action he saved the life of the girl and her unborn child”

The victim has since delivered a healthy baby boy and her statement read in court said, “ How can I explain to the baby when he grows up that his father tried to kill us both just because I was pregnant?”

A Detective Inspector Helen Williams in her reaction after the verdict said, “If it wasn’t for the courageous intervention of a passer-by I strongly believe this would have been a murder investigation."