A Chief Magistrate Court sitting in Awka, Anambra state, has remanded one Nonso in prison custody, on an offence of attempted murder of a twenty-five-year-old girl from Isuofia.
Nonso who hails from Umuona in Aguata Local Government Area, was brought before the Children, Sexual and Gender Based Violence Court, sitting in Awka and presided over by, Magistrate Genevieve Osakwe.
The charge was read to the defendant but no plea was taken.
Also, the court remanded the defendant to the Correctional Center and ordered that the police transmit the original case file to the office of the Attorney General.
Although the matter is coming up in December 2022 for the report of compliance by the police, the court has also ordered the police to make sure they arrest the absconded defendant and arraign him before the court.
Nonso is the man who slit the throat of his lover and wanted to bury her and her two children alive at his backyard in Isuofia.
Speaking with the victim after she was discharged from the hospital, the twenty-five-year-old mother of two explained that she went to see him because the suspect who is a native doctor had earlier promised her marriage.
According to her, on that fateful day the suspect sent a commercial motorcycle operator to bring her and the kids to his house, but did not allow them to go home that day because it was already late.
She also said that the suspect later told her that he has a surprise for her using a white handkerchief to blindfold her and at that point, she struggled to know what was happening but unfortunately it was late as the suspect had already brought a knife and started cutting her throat.
The victim further noted that although she struggled for her life, she was overpowered and dragged to an already dug four feet grave at the suspects backyard and was pushed into the grave.
She also said that the suspect who threw a big stone over her head went to bring shovel before she starts shouting thereby alerting the suspect’s sister who had long slept off.
According to her, it was the suspects elder sister who came to her rescue after she had also alerted members of the public who in turn captured the said native doctor but by then, the cyclist who was his accomplice had taken off.
When the matter was brought to the attention of the Commissioner for Women and Social Welfare, Mrs Ify Obbinabo, she quickly made arrangements for the victim and her two children through her Sexual and Gender Based Violence, SGBV, response team.
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