Student allegedly murders Girlfriend slice body into pieces over rejected advances
A twenty-year-old University of Uyo student, Elisha, has allegedly murdered his auxiliary nurse girlfriend and dismembered her body after she refused his sexual advances.
The incident which occurred in the early hours of Tuesday has plunged the area into grief.
While the underlying motive for the horrific act remains unclear, reports suggest that the immediate cause may have been the boyfriend’s aggressive demand for sex.
According to reports from Leadership, Elisha reportedly lured the nursing assistant, who was on her way to work, to his one-room apartment on Atiku Abubakar Way.
An elderly resident of the compound, an 80-year-old woman with limited ability to communicate, said she managed to reach the door and pleaded with Elisha to stop beating the deceased, but her pleas were ignored.
The old woman said: “I am not strong, but despite my frail and weak body, I managed to go and knocked at the door, but Elisha refused to open. Afterwards, I could no longer hear the beating and the shouting for help, I thought the fight had stopped, not knowing he had killed the lady and cut her body to several pieces.
“He later broke the ceiling, climbed and hid himself before the Police came, broke the door into the house, where the body parts of the deceased were picked in bits from the naked mattress into sack bags and taken to the Police station. Elisha was later fished out from the ceiling and taken along to the station,” she narrated.
Leadership further quoted another resident of the compound, who said when the fight became more intense, “I called his father, who arrived, knocked on the door and appealed to his son, warning him against taking the laws into his own hands, but the warning was not heeded and the father left.
“The man had suddenly closed the door immediately on sighting the father in the compound, and before others could arrive, he had already killed the lady, shredded her into pieces and went into hiding in the ceiling of the room, where the Police came to bring him down for arrest.”
Confirming the incident, Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO) ASP Timfon John stated that the case has been transferred to the State Police headquarters in Ikot Akpanabia, Uyo.
He emphasized that the suspect has been arrested and is currently undergoing interrogation.
