Man Butchers Neighbor To Death While Sleeping (Pictured)
Category: Crime News
One Idowu Talabi said to be a native doctor, has allegedly killed
his 30-year-old co-tenant, Isau Oluwatobiloba, in Ogun State.
Dailypost learnt that the suspect was arrested by the police on
Sunday, following a report lodged at the Ikenne Division.
The wife
of the victim had reported that she returned from a Church vigil at about 6 am
to find the lifeless body of her husband in a pool of his blood.
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It was gathered that the man was machete to death while sleeping on his
bed at 4, Best Way Moro Street, Ikenne, Ikenne Local Government Area of Ogun
State.
Upon the report, the DPO of Ikenne division, CSP Ibrahim
Ningi, led his detectives to the scene, where it was discovered that there was
no break-in at the scene and nothing was removed from the room where the
victim was killed.
“This discovery pointed to the fact that the killing was carried out by an insider, hence all the occupants of the house were invited to the station for interrogation,” the Ogun police spokesperson, Abimbola Oyeyemi, said on Tuesday.
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According to Oyeyemi, Idowu Talabi confessed after a thorough
investigation, that he killed the deceased.
Asked to give a reason
for his action, Talabi was quoted as saying that his victim was fond of
accusing him of stealing.
This, he said, infuriated him to the
point of macheting Oluwatobiloba to death when he knew that the deceased was
home alone sleeping.
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“The cutlass he used to commit the crime has since been recovered,” Oyeyemi
revealed.
Meanwhile, the Ogun State Commissioner of Police, Lanre
Bankole, has ordered the transfer of the suspect to the homicide section of
the State CIID for further investigation and prosecution.
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