Residents of Umuahia, the Abia State capital were, Friday, thrown into confusion when a 24-year-old commercial tricycle operator, simply identified as Chigozie, was nabbed with the corpse of his girlfriend, while he was attempting to dump the body in the bush.
The suspect, who hails from
Ajata Ibeku in Umuahia North Local Government Area of the state, claimed that
his late lover died in a minor dispute between them when she turned down his
request for sex.
Luck, however, ran out on him
when some eagle-eyed local youths caught him when he was about to throw away
the corpse of his girlfriend known as Beauty.
But for the timely intervention
of the Police, the suspect would have been lynched by a mob.
On how it happened, the suspect
said that he demanded sex from his girlfriend in the evening when she visited
him, but she declined, saying she was not ready.
Her reluctance, according to
him led to a little struggle between them and she accidentally hit her head on
the wall and slumped.
He admitted that he and the
victim who hailed from Oboro in Ikwuano LGA had dated for two years.
Meanwhile, youths from the area
who saw him with the corpse and suspected foul play trailed him to the bush
where he had wanted to dispose of the body and accosted him.
They later took the corpse to
the Federal Medical Centre Umuahia where it was confirmed dead on arrival.
A local source who pleaded not
to be mentioned said:“We decided to follow him without his notice until he
entered inside the bush to dump the body then we caught him red-handed.”
Another source said:“She was
his girlfriend and they were fighting suddenly she tripped off and hit her face
on the floor.The guy didn’t remove any body part.”
Attempts to extract a response
from the police were unsuccessful as the Police Public Relations Officer, PPRO,
in the state, Maureen Chinaka, did not pick up calls put to her phone.
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