A
20-year old house maid, Chioma Onyegili, was hacked to death yesterday
by a 31-year-old son of her madam, Okechukwu (surnamewithheld), for
refusing to have se.x with him in Onitsha, Anambra state.The incident
occurred at about 9.30 pm Wednesday at 56 Ziks Avenue Fegge, Onitsha,
when the suspect now in police custody used a cutlass to kill the maid
for refusing to accept his advances.
Daily Sun gathered
that the deceased girl was living with the 70-year-old mother of the
accused who always demanded that the girl sleep with him, which she
always resisted. He thereafter slashed the girl on her neck with a
machete.
The
Divisional Police Officer in charge of Fegge Police Station, Mr. Rabui
Garba, a Superintendent of Police who confirmed the incident, said that
when the information reached his office he dispatched a team of
detectives who swung into action and arrested the culprit.
He
said that the suspect would be transferred to State Investigation
Department (CID) for further investigation on the matter while the
deceased corpse has been deposited to an undisclosed hospital mortuary
in Onitsha.
The suspect had confessed to the crime, saying that
he had killed some other persons in the past in a similar manner. He
claimed that he did not not what pushed him to kill the girl, hinting
that he may have been hardened by his past murders.
It would be
recalled that two days ago, a woman in Okpoko (Ogbaru LGA of the state)
was arrested for using a kitchen knife to inflict injuries on a maid’s
private part for frequent night urinating.
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