Lover to female staff of Niger
Delta Development Commission,
NDDC, Miss Sophia Phillips
Horsefall, and two others were,
yesterday, arraigned at a Port
Harcourt magistrate’s court by
Department of State Services, DSS,
for stabbing her to death after
she had refused to make him, the
boyfriend, her next-of-kin to her
bank account as well as her
refusal to give him one million
(N1 million) he had demanded
from her.
The accused, Sotonye Martin,
Innocent Oluche and Wachukwu
Ugochukwu committed the
murder on November 8 this year.
Counsel to the DSS, Mr C. S. Eze,
told the court that the first
defendant, Mr. Sotonye Martin,
lured the deceased, who he had
a 13-year-old daughter for, to the
house of the second defendant,
Innocent Oluche, where he
allegedly stabbed her to death.
He claimed the first and second
defendants later buried the
deceased in a shallow grave,
noting that they invited the third
defendant, Wachukwu
Ugochukwu, a spiritualist, to
perform some rituals.
According to him, the accused
were brought before the court
on a three-count charge which
included “stabbing to death with
a jack knife and thereby
committed an offence contrary to
Section 316 and punishable
under Section 319 of the Criminal
Code Law, Laws of Rivers State
1999.”
The accused did not take plea.
Chief Magistrate F. Alikor referred
the casefile to the state Director
of Public Prosecution, saying her
court did not have jurisdiction to
entertain matters over murder
which was the second charge.
She remanded the accused in
prison custody and adjourned
the matter indefinitely.
Elder brother to the deceased, Mr
Amatu Phillips, while speaking to
newsmen, alleged that his sister
was murdered by the boyfriend
of 13 years, Mr. Martin because of
her wealth. He claimed she had
some money in her account and
confided in the boyfriend who
later kept on pestering her for
financial support.
According to him, after the sister
had allegedly given him money
several times, he came again
demanding for N1 million which
she refused. He alleged that the
boyfriend later lured her to his
friend’s house, offered her a fruit
juice drink which, unknown to
the sister, was drugged.
He alleged that when www.naijarep.com/2016/12/boyfriend-stabs-lover-to-death-buries.html

Most laddie end up like this in desperation to answer somebody's wife, they hook up with good for nothing men. RIP Madam, your killers will not go unpunished.