Final year student of the University of Port Harcourt (UNIPORT) has been apprehended by the Edo State Police Command for reportedly stabbing his girlfriend to death.
Gatekeepers News reports that Chidi Nwabuzor, the Public Relations Officer (PRO) of the Edo State Police Command, confirmed the incident on Wednesday.
Nwabuzor said the crime occurred on August 21 at No. 10, Osahon Street, Ogheghe Quarters, off Sapele Road in Benin City.
The suspect, identified as Victor Ochonogor, was apprehended in Edo on Monday in connection with the death of Success Regha.
Emmanuel Momoh, the landlord of the apartment, reported the matter to the police, stating that the two were locked inside the house when the violent incident unfolded.
Ochonogor, a student of Applied and Industrial Chemistry, is alleged to have stabbed the victim in the neck and chest with a knife.
According to Nwabuzor, the police recovered the knife and quickly took the suspect, who also sustained a stab wound on his neck, to Stella Obasanjo Hospital.
The police PRO mentioned that the deceased’s body was deposited at the hospital mortuary.
“Items recovered from the suspect are two blood-stained knives, two iPhones, one Nokia phone, one laptop, and two ATM cards,” Nwabuzor said.
“The case was later transferred to the homicide section, State Criminal Investigation Department Benin. The suspect will be charged in court for murder soon.”
During a press parade, Ochonogor reportedly told journalists that he had been in a relationship with his deceased girlfriend for three years.
He said she came from Asaba to Benin and accused him of being a kidnapper; an allegation he said led to the violence.
