Monday, April 27, 2015

Autopsy report indicts police in orphan’s death

Facts at the weekend emerged in Calabar, Cross River State on how a 23-year-old man, Stanley Etim, died in police custody. 

Etim, an orphan, was arrested by police officers attached to D5 of the State Criminal Investigation Department (SCID), Diamond Hill, Calabar, was beaten to death by the police.
New Telegraph had earlier reported the death of the young man while in police custody.
 An autopsy report released at the weekend indicates that Etim died of extensive “blunt head and limb (lower/upper limb) injuries”. 
The report, which was signed by one Dr Irabor Godstime Isi, a pathologist with the University of Calabar Teaching Hospital (UCTH) and witnessed by one Omoruyi Kenneth of the Department of Histopathology of the same university, states as follows: “Extensive blunt head and limb (lower/upper limb) injuries,” with a footnote: “This does not mean the mode of dying e.g. heart failure, asthma, etc.
Read More http://newtelegraphonline.com/autopsy-report-indicts-police-in-orphans-death/

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