Man kills live-in-lover on Christmas Day, flees

Fatai A. (Commissioner of Police Lagos State)

Homicide detectives of the Lagos State Police Command have started hunting a young man who stabbed his livein- lover to death at Festac area and disappeared. Policemen hunting the fleeing suspect said feelers they got showed that the man had fled to Benin Republic, assisted by friends. The suspect, name yet unknown, killed his 21-year-old lover, Cecilia Joseph.


The man was reported to have been cohabiting with Cecelia at Waterside Street, Lakeview Estate, Phase 2, Lagos until the ugly incident on Christmas Day.According to Titilayo Adelodu, elder sister to the deceased, an argument ensured on Christmas Day between the two lovers, which ended in the boyfriend stabbing Cecilia to death. Adelodu said: “Immediately after stabbing my sister to death with a kitchen knife, her boyfriend ran away. Nobody knows where he had run to.” Confirming the incident, the state Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), 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 crime scene. 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.”