A 24-year-old man, Onuabhuchi Agbo has strangled his 44-year-old male friend Peter Ukekwe to death in Amori, a community in Nkanu West Local Government Area of Enugu State, and buried the corpse in a shallow grave.
Penpushing reports that the Enugu State Police Command Public Relations Officer, Daniel Ndukwe, confirmed this in a statement on Monday, adding that the suspect has been arrested and arraigned in court.
The police spokesperson said both the suspect and the victim had travelled on April 1, 2023 from the Ogidi Community in Anambra State to the Amori Community in Nkanu West Local Government Area of the State to visit a native doctor, identified as Onyeka Edeh
Penpushing further reports that Ndukwe added that during the night, the suspect who hails from Ebonyi state and the victim who reside in Ogidi, a community in Idemili North Local Government Area of Anambra State left the native doctor’s house to an unknown destination.
“A search was conducted, but they were not found until the following morning when the suspect was arrested at Obe Community in the same (Nkanu West) Local Government Area by police operatives serving in Nkanu West Division of the Enugu State Command, with the assistance of indigenes, while he was attempting to escape back to Ogidi, Anambra State,” he said.
Penpushing also reports that the statement said the suspect has confessed that he strangled the victim to death and buried him in a shallow grave in a bush, adding that the remains of the victim has since been exhumed and deposited in the mortuary for preservation and autopsy.
‘The case was transferred to the Homicide Section of the State Criminal Investigation Department Enugu, where investigation into the case was consolidated, concluded and the suspect arraigned and remanded accordingly for further hearing,” he said.
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