A mother of three, Mrs Tayelolu Solomon, has reportedly killed her 65-year-old husband, Felix Solomon, with a pestle in Ondo State.
According to the state-owned
newspaper, the incident occurred at GRA in Ondo town at the weekend.
It was gathered that the couple
had been having a lingering crisis and the woman had threatened to kill him.
According to the son of the
deceased, Ibukun Solomon who witnessed the incident, his mother killed his
father in his sleep after a minor argument.
“My mother killed my father with a pestle in
my presence and took to her heels. She used the pestle to hit his head when he
was asleep,” he narrated.
“Earlier on the fateful day, a
minor argument had ensued between them that resulted in a fight. After the
fight, my father went to lie on the chair and my mother hit his head with the
pestle
“He became unconscious in the
process and fell down from where he was sleeping. My mother used the pestle to
hit my father’s head three times and he later died.
“When my mother saw that my
father was already unconscious, she hid the pestle at the back of our house and
ran away
“I alerted some of the residents, who rushed
my father to the hospital. But he later died. His corpse has been deposited at
the morgue. My mother had three children for my father and I’m the last child.”
It was learnt that the deceased
was on the floor of the house when the people of the community arrived at the
scene. And they called the police for help. It was further gathered that the
deceased had planned to report the woman to her family before she sent him to
his grave.
A member of the deceased’s family
said they were making efforts to settle the incessant fight between the couple
before tragedy struck.
The source revealed that was
not the first time such face-off would occur between the couple and the family
would settle it amicably.
“The woman had been threatening to kill her
husband whenever they were fighting. And the deceased informed us about the
threats. But we never knew she would carry out the act. But this time, she took
laws into her own hands and killed our brother for nothing. She must be
arrested and prosecuted accordingly.”
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