Cynthia Osokogu, the young student who was killed in July 2012 by some of her Facebook social media friends, was asphyxiated, that is: suffocated to death through blockage of air into her lungs.

In his testimony before the court today, the Chief Pathologist of Lagos State, John Oladapo Obafunwa, said the postmortem he carried out alongside five other colleagues on September 6 showed that the deceased died of blockage of air into the upper part of the air ways.

Efforts by Victor Opara, the counsel to the first defendant, Okwumo Nwafor, to prevent Mr. Obafunwa’s testimony from being taken failed as Justice Olabisi Akinlade insisted the trial was too important to be delayed with flimsy excuses.

The Chief Pathologist, who is also Vice Chancellor of Lagos State University, said he first saw the corpse on July 23 (a day after the fateful day of Cynthia’s murder.

“The body was naked; the two hands tied to the back with brown tape and supported with padlock; the two legs were also taped together,” he said. “The mouth was stuffed with head net and handkerchief, also tied with brown tape round the head to secure the materials in the mouth.”

source :http://saharareporters.com/news-page/facebook-murder-victim-cynthia-osokogu-died-“asphyxia”-says-lagos-pathologist

u guys shld allow ds gal to rest in peace ,,person don die una stil dey investigate nonsense,,even after arresting d culprits dey wil stil b released no b naija..