A 23 years old bricklayer Adebayo Kingsley who said he hails from Ibillo in Akoko-Edo local government area has allegedly killed a 46 years old lover, a widow and mother of four Rosemary Ifeoma popularly called Mama Samuel from Orogun in Ughelli North local government area.
He was said to have hit the lady with a plank and had carnal knowledge of her thereafter.
He was earlier accused of hitting the head of her 13 years old boy and then pounced on the woman thinking the son was dead.
Confirming the incident Tuesday, Police Public Relations Officer, Edo State Command, Kontongs Bello said the suspect would be charged to court once investigation is concluded.
The incident happened in Darlington Ogbeifun Street, Off Ogbekan Village road, Ugbor in Oredo local government area.
A resident in the area who simply gave his name as Peter said “This woman we popularly called Mama Samuel was a widow with four children and the last one who is 13 years stays with her.
She was having difficulties paying her rent and then approached a woman in the area whose brother was building a storey building that has been roofed to allow her stay there pending when she can raise money from her business to get a new accommodation.
She had a lover who is bricklayer that was coming to see her and people around here know them.
“It was early in the morning on July 16 that her 13 years old son after regaining consciousness from his confrontation with suspect in the night who thereafter killed his mother ran to inform neibghours what has happened. He was rushed to the hospital for treatment and later narrated the story of how the suspected attacked them. He led others to the place where the suspect was working and immediately he sighted the boy, he took to his heels until he was pursued and arrested by the police.”
When confronted, the suspect confessed to the crime but said he did not hit the victims with log but rather in the course of an argument with the woman, “She wanted me to help her with cement to do a caravan but when we did not agree on how to do it, she said I should leave her house, I actually left but missed my way ad strayed back to the house but by this time, they have locked the gate so I jumped into the compound through the fence and entered their room, his son threatened to stab me and went into the room and came back with a knife, I rushed him and pushed him then he hit his head on the wall and collapsed. The woman then came after me and held me but in trying to push her away, she fell and hit her head on the ground and blood was coming from his head. I quickly took the boy to the room and put him on the bed and then left. I did not hit anybody with log and I did not sleep with the woman”