‘I feel bad for killing her, she was good to me’

 

Williams said that all he took away from the house were the deceased’s phones.

He said that he drove around until morning hours because he was confused. He said that he knew Lizzy’s brothers were coming over that day because she was planning to move to her new house. He could not face them, he said.

He said: “If I go back, the brothers could kill me. I met Lizzy in Ghana when she used to come and buy shoes. I sell fairly used clothes. No, I don’t work for her or Edmark. She doesn’t give me money. We later met again at Nnewi and became friends.”

According to police, when he got to Ghana, he went to church to give thanksgiving that he had bought a car, but he said that the police were lying.

“Yes, I went to church, but not to celebrate. All my friends knew Lizzy. They knew the jeep belonged to her, I couldn’t have gone to church to celebrate the car.”

Asked how he felt now, he said: “I feel bad because she was good to me.”

He said that Lizzy used to come to Ghana to buy shoes, but later told him to be bringing shoes to Nigeria for her. She was running the business alongside the Edmark business.

Recalling the horror of that night, Williams said: “I left my former lover because of Lizzy. She demanded it. On that fateful night, the kids were in another wing of the apartment. It was a man that caused this problem. Her behaviour showed that she was cheating on me.

“I had never proposed to her, but maybe things would work out later.”

The secondary school certificate holder, who said he had known Lizzy since 2011, added that Lizzy had never wronged him until that night.

Tungwin, Lizzy’s security said: “It was about midnight when Williams came and said that Madam asked him to go and cash money from ATM for him. He said they were going to a night club and needed money. I was the only person who knows the ATM number aside from her. I followed him to the ATM and we cashed N100,000. He dropped me at the gate and said he was going to pick a friend to join him and Madam.

“In the morning, Madam didn’t come out and the door was locked. I called Williams, he picked but said that I shouldn’t worry that he was coming home. When he didn’t come home, I knew something bad must have happened to madam.

“I went to the next compound to borrow a ladder.  I climbed and peeped into her room and saw her on the ground. She was not moving. Madam kids, who were with me, where worried since they had not seen their mother. When I climbed the ladder, they were with me. But I couldn’t tell them what I saw. I called the house maid and told her.”

‘He wanted to marry my sister, but she refused’

Mr. Christian Mekowulu, elder brother of Lizzy, said that there was no doubt in his mind that Williams killed his kid sister because he wanted to take over her money.

He insisted that the lady had about 50,000 dollars, which alleged that Williams must have taken.

His words: “My sister is the number one person in Edmark in Nigeria. She brought Edmark to Nigeria. She sells shoes as a sort of part time. Williams and my sister just met at Nnewi. He said he wanted to marry her, but she said he was too young. She even called me to tell me about him and his proposal. They’ve dating like for three months. I know that the 50,000 dollars is with her, because she told me that she would give him money to bring in goods for her.”