Sunday, 3 January 2016

NEW YEAR TRAGEDY AS MAN AXES STEP MOTHER TO DEATH IN ENUGU, NIGERIA




To start the year 2016 a 40 year old man, Friday Anyim decided to gift his step mother with a ticket out of this world.  The sad incident which claimed the life of Mrs. Bennedeth Anyim took place in Umuenem, Ezinesi-Oduma in Aninri Local Government Area of Enugu State on January 1, 2016 led to her death.

Reports had it that she met her death in an attempt to intervene in a fight between Friday and another of his siblings in the family.


The suspect Friday who is a son of one of the three wives of Mr. Samuel Anyim, his father was involved in an argument with his elder sister, Abigail Anyim, because of his plan to sell a water tank in order to use the proceeds of the sale to enable him purchase a motorcycle, locally called Okada for commercial transport purpose. A plan objected to by his sister, Abigail.

In the course of the heated argument, Friday was reported to have picked up an axe to attack his sister Abigail but his step mother Bennedeth who was trying to separate the two got in the way and was struck by the axe swung by Friday. The suspect is alleged to have ran away when he discovered that his step mother was dead.

Enquires made to the Enugu State Police Command on the incident met a confirmation through a statement by the Command’s Public Relations Officer, Ebere Amaraizu who said the police was investigating the matter.

The Command’s PRO stated that the deceased’s husband, was informed about the incident soon after it occurred and left in the middle of a meeting in a nearby house, only to get to his home and meet his wife Bennedeth in a pool of her own blood. She was already dead and could not be saved.

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