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Dear Madge,

I hope you are not still seething from the abrupt manner with which I ended the last letter. But you remember I had this furtive cheekiness, one of my attributes you found so irresistible. Okay, enough of the cheesiness. The case has gotten no less interesting, as a matter of fact, events have moved on so rapidly, I had better get a head start to bring you up to speed.

I was met at arrival on Lagos by Inspector Burukutu, the chappie who called me in London about a connection between the murders in Lagos and London. He is an agreeable enough chap. Things can get a bit awkward sometimes you know Madge, with the accents and all. But rather than Burukuta ask me to repeat stuff he doesn't understand like I do, he chooses to laugh irritably instead. Accents aside, he has been a nice enough guide shall I call it. Its hard to define who is in charge here to be honest. There are not the most organised force, the Nigerian Police, despite Burukutu's efforts to be as helpful as possible.

I am sure it has crossed your mind already how the the connection was made between the London and Lagos murders. The connection wasn't made by the local police here actually. It was all stitched together by the owner of the Koboland.com website, one Jeun Okuwa, in his mid twenties, and meant to be some kinda hot budding entrepeneur. He made sure I knew it too.

Burukutu arranged a meeting with the Mr Okuwa the day after I came. He assumed I had questions I might want to ask him. Which was fair enough really, as I did have many questions from the file Burukutu had sent over to London prior to my coming to Lagos. You can tell Burukutu had put a lot of effort into the dossier, but even you dear Madge could pick holes in the methods of these police force.

Ah now. . .before I tell you about how my meeting with Mr. Okuwa went, I should give you a background on the state of affairs as it were in Lagos. There are three murders in total. And all victims had been habitual devotees of this koboland website. Let me now give a detailed description of each of the victims and the circumstances surrounding their demise:


The first was a female in her twenties named Diana Ebulemolo ( i shall simply refer to her as Diana now for obvious reasons). Her username on the

website was Sisi-gee. She suffered multiple stab wounds according to the report, and was found dumped in a quiet street in the city. (If you ever

were to visit lagos, I am sure you will find it as preposterous as I do to attach quiet with the city at all. The din is unrelenting). From the autopsy

report she must have been dead a few days, probably moved from the scene of the murder before getting dumped on the side street. Her username

on the website was Sisi-gee. Burukutu also noted her family was of middle class stock, Father was a lecturer and Mother was some sort of business

lady. She had also just finished some kind of compulsory youth service Nigerian graduates are meant to pass through after graduating from

University, so called by the acronym N.Y.S.C.


The second victim was male, in his thirties called Emeka(I think I had better omit the surnames from now, this one will literally have you cutting your

tongue). His username on the website was 6play. Also the victim of a stabbing, he was found in a hotel room in the middle of Lagos, and not just

some seedy hotel, but the local Sheraton, one of the top three hotels in the city. You can imagine the location led to a bit of publicity in the papers.

Coupled with the status of the victim. Unemployed and living in one of the unsightly parts of the city, suspicions were aroused as to how he could

afford such lodgings albeit temporarily.


The third victim was female, a lady by the name Desiree and the primary reason why I am here. Her username on the website was Lady Eko. Her

father has been a mainstay of governments past and present in Nigeria through which he had accumulated not a little wealth and a lot of clout.

Ironically she was found in a part o ftown someone of her status would not nominally be, and right on the outskirts of the city. She had only just

returned from finishing graduate studies in Birmingham as well, so the father was especially distraught, as she was quite a favourite. She was also a

victim of a stabbing, and in Burukutu's words, of the quite 'gruesome' variant.



Well Madge, those are the sketchy details from down here. I am going to be cheeky again and pause for breath here. I will get to the very
interesting Jeun Okuwa in my next letter.

Yours

Dickie