An indigene of Ebonyi State, identifies as Rexlawson Johnson, 31 has been arrested by men of the Ogun State Police Command for the alleged gruesome murder of his girlfriend, Patricia John, 26.
A statement by the command’s spokesman Abimbola Oyeyemi, explained that the arrest of the suspect followed a report by one Adebayo Aladesuyi of “Molayo Hotel, Ibafo, Obafemi Owode Local Government Area of the state.
Oyeyemi quoted Aladesuyi, as saying that the hotel discovered the dead body of the occupant of one of the rooms with bruises on her neck suggesting that she might have been strangulated.
On the strength of the report, Oyeyemi said the Divional Police Officer Ibafo, Jide Joshua led his detectives to the scene and recovered the corpse to Olabisi Onabanjo University Teaching Hospital, Sagamu for post mortem examination.
According to him preliminary investigation later revealed that the deceased checked into the hotel with a man who sneaked out after killing her.
“Consequently, the DPO and his men commenced technical and intelligence based investigation which led to unraveling the identity of the suspect”.
“He was subsequently traced and apprehended by the detectives. On interrogation, he confessed checking into the hotel with the deceased and that they had a misunderstanding which led to physical assault between them. In the process, he said the woman collapsed and gave up the ghost”.
Oyeyemi added that the suspect subsequently left the corpse in the room and sneaked out of the hotel.
Meanwhile, the Commissioner of Police, Edward Awolowo Ajogun, has ordered the immediate transfer of the suspect to homicide section of the State Criminal Investigation and Intelligence Department for further investigation and diligent prosecution.
He also appealed to hoteliers in the state to always have proper documentation of their customers in order to assist the police in a situation like this.
