When a lady pack her things and go live in a man’s house because he can buy shawarma and new phone for her, without two of them knowing much about themselves… most times na wahala you go see.
Homicide detectives of the Lagos State Police Command have started hunting a young man who stabbed his live-in lover to death at the Festac area of Lagos and has since disappeared.
Policemen hunting the fleeing suspect said feelers they got showed that the man had fled to Benin Republic, assisted by friends.
The guy killed his 21-year-old lover, Cecilia Joseph.
Cecelia is reported to have been cohabiting with the man at Waterside Street, Lakeview Estate, Phase 2, Lagos until the ugly incident on Christmas Day.
According to Titilayo Adelodu, the deceased elder sister, an argument ensured on Christmas Day between the two lovers, which ended in the boyfriend stabbing Cecilia to death.
She said: “Immediately after stabbing my sister to death with a kitchen knife, her boyfriend ran away. Nobody knows where he had run to.”
But while confirming the incident, the state Police PRO, DSP Joe Offor, said:
“I gathered that during the quarrel, Cecilia grabbed a kitchen knife and stabbed the boyfriend in the tummy.
Apparently desperate to carry out revenge, the man pulled the knife out of his tummy and stabbed Cecilia in the neck. Cecilia was said to have bled profusely and died on the spot.
“The man escaped after the crime to an unknown destination. We are in a man-hunt for him. The police have recovered the blood stained knife and taken pictures of the scene of the crime.
The lady was taken to Isolo General Hospital where she was confirmed dead. Her remains had been deposited at the hospital’s morgue and an autopsy is being carried out.”
– Violent love, leading to lovers using knife on each other… God forbid bad thing!
