By Evelyn Usman
Lying on her back at the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital(LASUTH), Ikeja, 28 year olds  Deanne Igho, a graduate of Accounting  from the University of Port Harcourt, Rivers state, slowly opened her eyes for the first time after several hours in the theatre.

But she could feel only in the right eye. She did not why. But pictures of the incident that occurred at her matrimonial home in far away Port -Harcourt, on October 7, 2011 returned to her. Only then did it occur to her that she will never see with her left eye again, except by divine intervention, no thanks to the  handiwork of  her husband of barely one year.


Deane with the fresh wound

Deanne, who is currently undergoing the mandatory one year Youth Service in Port -Harcourt reportedly had a quarrel with her heartthrob, Sylvester Emezi two weeks ago, during which the latter allegedly pierced her eye ball with a sharp object.

Her shout for help, rent the air at 2a.m. but no one could come to her rescue. The mother of one’s pleas to her husband to take her to the hospital fell on deaf ears as he reportedly left the house and locked her inside.

Bleeding profusely from the deep cut in the eye ball and eye lid, Deanne banged on the door and at the same time, made frantic calls on her phone for help. But none came until she reportedly passed out. Her little baby who at that moment , woke up, had his body stained with the blood from her mother’s injury. He cried uncontrollably, apparently calling her attention,which unfortunately , was  far from his reach.

Hours later, there were bangs on the door with the visitors calling out to Deanne. But there was dead silence from within.  The door was reportedly forced open where, to the visitors dismay, Deanne was found in the pool of her blood on the ground, from where she was subsequently rushed to a private hospital,where the doctor suggested that they   should go to a specialist hospital owing to the magnitude of the damage to the eye.

News currently making the rounds in Port Harcourt are that Sylvester intended using his wife’s eye ball for ritual purposes. Reports had it that the man allegedly ran into a debt of N5 million and in his bid to pay, approached a herbalist who demanded that he brought his wife’s eye ball with which a concoction would be prepared.

On application of the concoction, report said the lender would completely forget about the money . This claim, as gathered, would form part of Police investigation with the  possible arrest of the purported herbalist.

Speaking with Crime Guard on the issue, the victim’s younger brother, Nero Igho, explained how the family heard about the shocking news.

Said he, “ That night , my phone rang and when I picked it , I saw it was my sister . I heard her crying in pains, saying she was afraid she was going to die. She pleaded that I should  call her husband to come and take her to the hospital, that she was bleeding from an injury in the eye.

Immediately, I cut the line and dialed her husband’s number but he refused to pick. For the first time in my life, I wished I had wings  with which to fly from Lagos to Port-Harcourt. I  then decided to call his father who also lives here in Lagos, to at least reach his son.

After that, I also called my father to call her husband, which  he  did  without luck. When I called her hours later, someone picked and identified himself as Mr Castro, who informed me that my sister was in the hospital.

“Two days later,  I travelled to Port- Harcourt and was told that she was rushed to the University of Port – Harcourt Teaching Hospital  but  was referred to a Specialist hospital as  the doctors claimed they were writing their exams.

On getting to  a specialist hospital, we were  informed that they needed to carry out a surgery urgently on the eye to avoid any infection likely to  affect the second one. They told us point blank that the eye was damaged. I reported the case at the Police station before bringing my sister to Lagos for the surgery.”

Nero, who insisted that his family wanted justice to be done, further wrote to the a human rights group in Lagos, Crime Victims Foundation, to assist his family get the culprit in order for justice to be done. “ Please Crime Victim should not leave any stone unturned in ensuring that justice is done”, he stated in his petition to the Foundation.

Meanwhile, after the incident, Crime Guard gathered that Sylvester bolted away from Port-Harcourt, without anyone knowing his whereabouts. Unknown to all, he was lodging in a hotel in Festac Town area of Lagos, in preparation to leave the country as investigation later revealed.

But unfortunately for him, Nero, as gathered, got wind of his whereabouts following which he paid him a surprise visit last Sunday, in the company of a friend. Sighting the duo, Sylvester reportedly attempted to sneak away but was accosted by Nero and his friend. Nero, as gathered, spoke to him in a soft  tone and succeeded in  cajoling him to, at least, go and see his father-in-law, so that the case  could  be resolved.

But on reaching his father-in-law’s Dopemu-Agege abode, he was apprehended by the Police, from where he was taken to the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARs), Ikeja.

Investigation by Crime Guard revealed that Deanne’s parents initially kicked against their daughter’s relationship with Sly, as he was popularly called. But blinded by love,  she reportedly insisted on settling down with Sly, who looked every inch a lady’s man, owing to his seeming appealing looks and physique.

Upon her graduation in 2008, Deanne’s father reportedly bought her car.  But along the line, she got pregnant for Sylvester, thereby deferring her mandatory one year Youth Service Corps till 2011. The development, compelled Deanne’s parents to soft -pedal on their initial position.   A formal introduction, as gathered, was  made preparatory to the marriage ceremony proper, which, unfortunately, never held until the unexpected happened.

Perhaps, Deanne could have had premonition of what lay ahead, following her resolve to quit,  barely one year into the union. But on second thought, she reportedly endured, due to what a close source described as her ‘concern over what people would say

na wa ooo. evil man

chai !!! very disturbing

that is so sad, the man who is responsible should get the death penalty

why ar human beings wicked? Even if he don't luv his wife 4 de fact dat they have been 2gether 4 a long time, dis man is just simply a devil incanate i can't really say why all these wicked stories 4rm dis side of de world.