One Sunday Ushie has confessed to killing his girlfriend, Nnena Samuel, and having sex with her corpse in Adijinkpor village in Ikom Local Government Area, LGA of Cross River State.
The suspect had invited the deceased mother-of-two in the night of January 26 and took her to his apartment.
Ushie, a cocoa farmer in Akparabong, was said to have killed the woman when she refused to allow him have sex with her.
In his confession before newsmen while being paraded at the weekend, he said she never gave him the opportunity to have sex with her while alive, adding that he invited her to his house and killed her with knife before having sex with the corpse.
Ushie said, “It is the work of the devil. I do not know how. I am the one that killed her. I killed her with knife.
“She was my girlfriend and I knew her for just two months before this incident happened. I slept with her corpse after killing her.”
“It was strange sleeping with a dead corpse. I never had sex with her when she was alive because she never gave me that opportunity.
“I was always giving her money but she didn’t allow us to have sex,” the farmer, who said he regretted his action added, blaming the incident on the devil.
Parading the suspect at the state police command headquarters in Calabar, the state capital, the acting Commissioner of Police, CP in Cross River State, Mr. Hafiz Inuwa, said it was the landlord of the deceased that informed the police that his tenant had been brutally murdered.
Inuwa said, “This happened on January 27, 2017 at about 10.55 hours, following a report at the Ikom Divisional Police headquarters from one Cletus Etta of Adijinkpor village that his tenant was brutally murdered.
“Her right hand and left leg and mouth were severed by the suspect.
“The children of the deceased, Hezekiah (11) and Ezekiel (9) confirmed to the police that their mother was invited out by the suspect on the night of January 26 but did not return home.
“The suspect has been arrested in connection to the crime and he confessed that he killed the woman before having carnal knowledge of her.
“Investigation is ongoing and after which he will be charged to court for murder,” the acting CP added.
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