The Woman Who Refused to Die: How a ‘Dead’ Nigerian Fought from the Grave to Reclaim Her Fortune

The Woman Who Refused to Die: How a ‘Dead’ Nigerian Fought from the Grave to Reclaim Her Fortune

The court was silent. The air thick with tension. All eyes were fixed on the screen as a woman, long presumed dead, stared back at them—alive.

June Ashimola’s face was etched with quiet fury, her voice steady but filled with a fire that had burned for years.

"I am not dead," she declared. "And I will not let thieves bury me alive!"

The courtroom gasped.

Somewhere in the shadows of the United Kingdom, a sinister scheme had been hatched. A fraudster, armed with deception and a forged death certificate, had stolen her £350,000 home, claiming she had left this world without a will. Her estate had been handed to Ruth Samuel, who acted on behalf of a phantom husband—Bakare Lasisi—a man Ashimola swore she had never married.

For years, the lie held strong. Documents were signed. Papers stamped. Keys exchanged.

But then, whispers began. A ghost had been spotted in Nigeria. The dead woman walked among the living.

Samuel and her accomplices dismissed the rumors. "Impossible," they scoffed. "Nothing but a lookalike!"

But the ghost had proof.

Unable to travel to the UK due to visa restrictions, Ashimola took her fight to the courtroom via video link. She held up her passport—recently expired, but undeniably real. A judge, John Linwood, leaned forward, studying the evidence.

"The deceased says she is very much alive," he murmured. The irony was inescapable.

The more the court dug, the more the lies unraveled. The death certificate? A forgery. The marriage to Lasisi? Nonexistent. The so-called husband? Perhaps a ghost himself.

And at the heart of it all—Tony Ashikodi.

A name that sent shivers down the spine. A man who had once spent three years in prison for deception. A puppet master who had orchestrated an entire scam to steal from the living by burying them in legal lies.

But Ashimola was no victim. She was a warrior.

With the judge’s final ruling, the chains of deception shattered. The house was hers again. The fraud exposed. The thieves undone.

A woman they had tried to erase from existence had just rewritten her story.

And oh, what a story it was.