According to her, the victim threatened to shoot her with an unseen gun if she did not succumb to his sexual demands. The man, whose identity the police were yet to establish, was killed about 12:30pm on October 20, at the suspect’s residence.
The case seems to be complicated since nobody is corroborating or denying the suspect’s story. The only other witness in the murder case was the deceased. Police said that a condom, money and clothes were all the items recovered from the deceased. Narrating how the victim was killed, Okechukwu said: “I was going out to get a sanitary pad, when the man, whom I had never met before, approached me. He said I should take him to my house without any justifiable reason.
“He threatened he would strangle me to death if I didn’t obey him. He had a gun which he pretended to bring out of his pocket when I tried to question him. But because I was scared, I cooperated with him. I took him to my uncle’s apartment. I live with my uncle and his family.” Okechukwu said that on getting to the house, the man asked her to pull off her clothes and lay flat on the ground. She begged him not to have any sexual intercourse with her, but the man allegedly refused to listen.
She added: “I was boiling water on the gas-cooker in the kitchen, which I wanted to use for cooking noodles. I begged him to allow me to go and put off the gas. He didn’t argue with me. I entered and noticed there was a wrapper on the floor of the kitchen.
I also noticed an iron rod, which I took and concealed it in the wrapper. “I switched off the gascooker. I heard his footsteps and noticed he was coming. He was still in pant, but wearing a condom. I rushed to catch up with him. Before he knew what was happening, I hit the rod on his head. “He fell to the ground and was screaming. He attempted to grab me. I had to hit him again until he started bleeding profusely. He lost consciousness. “I quickly made a call to my uncle, telling him what had just happened.
He said he would be becoming with policemen, that I should keep calm. But before my uncle came with the policemen, the rapist was dead.” The suspect denied deliberately killing the man. She also said that she had been in Lagos for the past five years and did not have anything to do with anybody aside her uncle and his family. Okechukwu said that security guards attached to the estate, where she stays, said the alleged rapist did not come through the main gate into the estate. They added that the deceased may have gained entrance into the estate via another route, not manned by security guards. Police are still investigating the matter.
http://newtelegraphonline.com/22-year-old-girl-stabs-alleged-rapist-to-death/
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