Man lynched for allegedly killing couple

A man simply identified as Dee Pee from Umuaku

Isiala Mbutu community in Aboh Mbaise Local

Government Area of Imo State was set ablaze by

irate youths for allegedly killing both husband and

wife.

Sunday Sun gathered at the weekend that the

suspect had on the May 30, 2016 trailed Mrs

Ukachi Njoku who was from Umuaku Mbutu Ukwu,

a neighbouring community also in Aboh Mbaise

council, to her farm where he allegedly hacked her

to death and removed her private parts apparently

for ritual purposes.

It was learnt that Mr. Rowland Njoku who had also

gone to the farm to join the wife was also attacked

and killed by the suspect. But their assailant who

escaped from the farm had inadvertently left one of

his pair of shoes.

It was reliably gathered that the villagers who were

alarmed that the couple had failed to return from

the farm organised search party that went to their

farm e the following day.

It was in the process that the mutilated bodies of

the couple were discovered hidden in a nearby

bush opposite the farm where they also picked up

a pair of shoes of their suspected killer.

Investigation by the villagers was reportedly re­

vealed that the shoe belongs to the suspect, who

had last year rent a one- room apartment at

Umunama in Ezinihitte Mbaise Council Area.

Sunday Sun gathered that the delegates sent by the

villagers met with the landlord of the house who

reportedly confirmed that Dee Pee was his tenant

and that he had questioned him the previous day

how he had sustained a wound on his right hand,

but that he told him that he was involved in a fight.

The landlord, it was learnt, complained to the

villagers that his tenant was a questionable char­

acter and asked them to take him with them.

The suspect who was subsequently dragged by the

angry youth to Eke Ugiri Market Square where he

allegedly confessed to have gone home to kill his

mother for rituals but that when he could not find

his mother he decided to use Mrs. Ukachi Njoku in

place of the mother. And that he had to kill the hus­

band to cover up the crime.

It was at this point that the angry youths hung

used tyres on his neck, sprayed him with fuel and

set him ablaze.

However, a police source at Oke Ovoro Divisional

Headquarters who pleaded anonymity because he

does not have the authority to speak, said that the

police received information that there was trouble

in Eke Ugiri adding that the team deployed to the

scene was chased away by the mob.

Source: The Sun