A 60 year old woman identified as Mrs. Joy Olatunji Shittu, in collaboration with her two daughters, Aishat and Toyin have been arrested by the police at Ojokoro Division. for hiding the dead body of their father and husband for three years!
The sad incident happened at their family house at 14b, Olaitan Mustapha, off Clem road, Ifako-Ijaiye, Ojokoro area of Lagos.
It was learnt that the deceased, Jimoh Olatunji Shittu, died in 2012 under strange circumstances.
But when queried, the bereaved wife said that her late hubby was sick for eight years before he died. And when they took him to Delta State to bury him on his land he bought there, they discovered that the land been sold to another person who prevented them from buring him there
Following a tip-off from neighbours, Policemen from the Ojokoro Police Division stormed the residence and arrested the family.
A source said that the mother and her daughters had employed the regular use of chemicals to embalm the dead bodies in a room. Neighbours said that they were the only occupants of a block of four flats.
Another neighbour said that since 2012 when the man died, four of his children have also died in a suspicious circumstances.
Curiously, investigations revealed that Joy told the police that she did not tell her husband’s family about his death because she was not in cordial relationship with them.
The matter is now under criminal investigation at the State Criminal Investigation Department, SCID, Panti, Yaba, Lagos.
The police retrieved the corpse and deposited it at a mortuary for autopsy and arrested the three suspects and immediately transferred them to SCID, Panti
1 comment:
This is unbelievable!..... hiding a corpse for that long?! This is so evil! #smh#
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