The 12 year old son of murder
suspect, John Owobi, who is accused of killing his five months pregnant wife,
Theresa, has told investigators at the Lagos State Criminal Investigations and
Intelligence Department (SCIID) that his father had told him to tell anyone who
asked about his mother to say she committed suicide by drinking an insecticide
known as sniper.
The deceased died on July 13th.
Owobi, a driver with a commercial
bank in Lagos, and his wife of 13 years, have been described by neighbors as
the fighting couple as they were always in one form of argument or the other.
The deceased always accused her husband of having extramarital affairs.
Narrating how she died to The New
Telegraph, brother of the accused, Daniel Akor, said the couple engaged in a
heated argument after John received a phone call from someone whom his wife
believed was his mistress
“Theresa accused her husband of
speaking with his lover. John told her that he wasn’t in the mood for trouble.
She started cursing him and walked out of the house in anger. She returned with
a bottle of sniper. She poured the content of the sniper into her mouth before
we could stop her. We gave her oil to drink, but it was too late. She died.”
Son of the deceased, Israel, said
he woke up while his mother was being attacked by his father.
“It was right from my sleep I
heard my mother screaming help! help! help! She also shouted, ‘he wants to
remove my baby from my stomach. My mother was under the bed. I saw my
father and Uncle Daniel trying to pull her out from under the bed. I later
went back to sleep. I woke up again to urinate. I saw my father trying to pour
oil into my mum’s mouth. Uncle Daniel held a torch. He asked me to go back to
sleep. He said that my mom would be alright by God’s grace. I went back to
sleep. I woke up about 5a.m. My uncle told me mum was dead. My father went to
inform the police. When father returned from the station, he told me that my
mum drank sniper. He showed me the empty bottle. Father said that if people
asked me what happened to my mum, I should tell them she drank sniper and
nothing more. He told me if I did otherwise, police would arrest me.”
Meanwhile family of the deceased
insist that their sister could not have committed suicide. They claim John
killed her so he could marry his girlfriend.
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Autopsy report.
ReplyDeleteLet's assume it's true that the guy was involved in extramarital affairs. Murder as such could be one of the consequences. One evil usually leads to another.
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