Investigators at the homicide section of the State Criminal
Investigations Department (SCID), Lagos Command, are working to unravel
circumstances surrounding the death of a woman allegedly beaten to death
by her 42-year-old husband penultimate weekend at Oko-oba area of Lagos
State.
The suspect, John Owobi, is currently being detained by detectives at
the SCID, Panti, Yaba, for murder, after allegedly committing the act
and forcing his three kids to tell neighbours that their mother died
after drinking Snipper, a poisonous insecticide.
The Deputy Commissioner of Police, Bolaji Salami, said the lifeless body
of the deceased, Theresa, was found lying on the floor of their room
and parlor self-contained at No. 42, Musiliu Street, Oko-oba area of
Lagos by neighbours.
To cover up his track, the suspect was said to have persuaded his
children not to say anything contrary to what he had told their
landlord.
A source at SCID revealed that the neighbours were attracted to the
scene by the persistent cry for help from the deceased on the day she
died, though the suspect had told his neighbours that his wife of about
15 years died after she drank poison.
The suspect further alleged that he had earlier tried to prevent his
wife from committing suicide, but that he was shocked hours later when
he discovered that she had gulped a full bottle of Snipper.
Luck, however, ran against the suspect that blew open his tissue of lies
when his three children insisted that their dad had actually instructed
them to say that their mum died after drinking insecticide.
“I suspected some lies in John’s earlier statement because we heard his
wife crying severally all through the night. So when he said that his
wife drank Snipper, I doubted him. I later took his kids to a corner
where I asked them what happened to their mother. True to my suspicion,
the children said that their father had instructed them to say that
their mum dank poison.
“With this information, I took the oldest of them aside and asked him to
narrate to me what happened in detail. The boy, who is about 13 years
old, said his father beat up their mother all through the night,” the
landlord, who refused to be named, said.
The Lagos State Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), Olarinde
Famous-Cole, who confirmed the incident, said an autopsy conducted on
the woman revealed that she died of trauma.
Famous-Cole, an Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP), disclosed that
the medical report conducted on the body also revealed that the
deceased suffered internal injuries and fractures from the beating she
received.
He said: “The suspect killed his wife and still went to the station to
report that the deceased was found lying dead on the floor in their
room. He claimed that his wife drank Snipper, but investigation revealed
that the suspect beat up the wife to death. The suspect having seen
that the wife was dead called his kid to say if anybody asks how their
mum died that they should say that she took poison.”
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