Police Operatives serving in Igbo-Eze North Division of the Enugu State Police Command in collaboration with Neighborhood Watch Group arrested a 21 years old male suspect, Junior Augustine Akor of Ette community on Monday 12th of June 2023 for allegedly raping and strangling to death Miss Faith Akuji, his 16 years old female relative on Thursday 8th of June 2023 in a bush at Mpole-Ubere in the Ette community in Igbo-Eze North Local Government Area in Enugu state.
The police bulletin signed by the Police Public Relations Officer, DSP Daniel Ndukwe states, “Preliminary investigation indicates that the victim had gone missing in the evening hours of 08/06/2023, after her grandfather sent her to grind cassava in the community centre; all efforts made to trace her whereabouts proved abortive.”
“Her decomposing body was, however, found in the mentioned bush, following the arrest of the suspect, who confessed to having dragged the victim into the bush, forcefully had carnal knowledge of her, until she fainted and died in the process.”
The police confirmed that the victim’s corpse was found without any lower-body cloth.
Consoling the deceased family, the Commissioner of Police CP Ahmed Ammani orders the Homicide Section of the State Criminal Intelligence and Investigation Department to investigate the atrocious act in record time and charge the suspect to court so that justice prevails.
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