Austin Ejovwo, a former vice chairman of the Okolor Inland community in the Udu Local Government Area of Delta state, has alleged that he was prodded by an evil spirit to murder his lover, Felicia Akpomeria.
According to LIB, on Monday, June 19, 2023, police apprehended the suspect at a hideout in the Ologbo town of Edo State.
Last Friday, Felicia was discovered dead in a pool of blood from machete wounds in the suspect’s bedroom.
The suspect admitted to the crime, according to Godwin Laya, a relative of the victim.
“He admitted the killing of my sister, Felicia, he said it was something that enter his eyes to kill her. He accused his mother of bewitching him,” Laya explained.
“I think the killer is diverting attention from his real motives for killing our sister. He did acknowledge at Ovwian Police Division where he was first detained that he was owing our sister.
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“For us, he wasn’t pushed by any evil spirit. We hear he had committed an earlier murder. He belongs to a cult. He either killed our sister for rituals or he killed her to evade a refund of the money he was owing her.
“He ran to his sister’s place where they produce palm oil and with his behaviour, the sister wanted to bring him back to the village before she was called from the village that her brother killed a woman.
“It was his sister that took him to Ovwain police station after she was informed. If they had called us before taking him to the police station, if he was brought to us, we would have retaliated our sister’s death because we are angry.
“The government should ensure that justice is served on the suspect
“The man is a suspected ritualist because our sister was found near a shrine inside the house, though I was not allowed to see the corpse of my sister at the mortuary by the police,” he added.