Detectives attached to the Homicide
Section, State Criminal Investigation and Intelligence Department (SCIID),
Panti Yaba, Lagos State, have arrested a chef for allegedly slitting the throat
of a female lawyer at the Opebi, Ikeja area of the metropolis.
The chef, Mr Joshua Usulor, was
alleged to have killed barrister Feyitayo Obot, 34, inside a hotel room at
Opebi, Ikeja area of the State.
Usulor, 21, was arrested on February
28, at Victoria Island a month after he committed the alleged criminal act. He
was alleged to have gone into hiding after allegedly committing the crime.
The Police Public Relations Officer
(PPRO), CSP Chike Oti, while confirming the incident, explained that the
suspect sneaked into the victim’s room stabbed her and then slit her throat in
order to rob her.
It was further alleged that Usulor,
after carrying out the dreadful deed, escaped.
Oti said: “After ensuring that the
woman was dead, Usulor stole her N26, 000 and mobile phone before fleeing the
room. The Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Zubairu Muazu, deployed homicide
detectives to the hotel after the command received report about a murder in one
of the rooms. The policemen collected important exhibits for forensic
analysis.”
According to Oti, the victim’s
corpse had multiple stab wounds on the abdominal region. He added that her
throat was also slit open with a sharp object. He disclosed that an autopsy was
carried out on her the corpse.
The autopsy result revealed that the
victim died as a result of exsanguination (excessive loss of blood), disruption
of the left jugular vein and sharp force trauma.
Oti said that although the suspect
absconded after committing the crime, Muazu directed the Deputy Commissioner of
Police in charge (DCP), in charge of SCIID, Mrs Yetunde Longe, to fish out and
prosecute the culprit.
Oti said: “Painstaking investigation
led to the arrest of the suspect, Joshua Usulor, on February 28, at his hideout
in Victoria Island Lagos. During interrogation, the suspect confessed to have
committed the crime. He said he never knew the victim before and only wanted to
rob her in order to offset his own hotel bills because he had spent two days
above what he paid for. To execute the plan undetected, he sneaked into the
deceased’s room to steal her money and her phones but she struggled with him. He
overpowered her and then stabbed her with a sharp knife in the stomach.”
The suspect reported said: “I used
the same knife to slit her throat. After satisfied that the woman was
dead, I made away with her phones and a cash sum of N26, 000.”
Investigation revealed that the
deceased was a lawyer who came to Lagos for a business meeting and lodged in
the hotel at Opebi, Ikeja.
Oti said that the suspect would be
charged to court for murder while the case file would be duplicated and sent to
the Director of Public Prosecution (DPP) for legal advice.
In another development, the Command
on Monday arrested a robbery suspect at 66, Olaitan Sebanjo Street in Lekki
after he allegedly attacked Miss Oluwatosin Graig.
The suspect, Amara Ezeodum, was
arrested after an anti-crime patrol team heard the screams of the victim. Police
said he was subsequently chased, caught and a gun recovered from him.
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