By Mudiaga Affe
A 23-year-old bricklayer, Kingsley Adebayo, who said he hails from Ibillo in Akoko-Edo Local Government Area of Edo State has allegedly killed a 46-year-old widow and mother of four, Rosemary Ifeoma, popularly called Mama Samuel, from Orogun in Ughelli North LGA of Delta State.

He was said to have hit the lady with a plank and had carnal knowledge of her thereafter.

Adebayo was alleged to have hit the head of her 13-year-old boy and then pounced on the woman thinking the son was dead.

Confirming the incident on Tuesday, the Edo State Police Public Relations Officer, Kontongs Bello, said the suspect would be charged to court once the investigation was concluded.

The incident happened in Darlington Ogbeifun Street, off Ogbekan village road in the Ugbor axis of Oredo LGA.

A resident of the area, who identified himself as Peter, said, “This woman 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 to stay there pending when she can raise money from her business to get a new accommodation.

“She had a lover who is a bricklayer that was coming to see her and people around  know them. It was early in the morning on July 16 that her 13-year-old son after regaining consciousness from his confrontation with the suspect in the night who thereafter killed his mother ran to inform neighbors of what 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 the suspect 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 woman with a log.

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“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 and 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.

“Her son threatened to stab me he 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 while trying to push her away, she fell and hit her head on the floor, blood was coming from her head.

“I quickly took the boy to the room and put him on the bed and then left. I did not hit anybody with a log and I did not sleep with the woman,” he said.