MAN MURDERS WIFE'S LOVER AFTER HE CAUGHT THEM ON MATRIMONIAL BED

                           


A 32-year-old businessman, Ezekiel Igbokwe, has been arrested by the Ogun State Police Command for allegedly killing his wife’s lover, Victor Olatundun after he caught him having sex with his wife on their matrimonial bed.

The suspect allegedly committed the offence at about 12am on Wednesday 27th July at Peace Lodge on Itura Street, Awa Ijebu, Ijebu-North Local Government Area of Ogun State and was arrested the next day.

Igbokwe, who said he was a businessman, explained that he had returned from his trip to Onitsha and met Victor on top of his wife on their matrimonial bed. They started fighting and when Igbokwe saw that Olatundun could overpower him, he got a cutlass from his toilet and cut his neck and hand. Olatundun died on his way to the hospital.

Igbokwe said he committed the crime due to anger, adding that he never meant to kill the victim.

He claimed that he had never met Olatundun before, saying he also never suspected that his wife was having an extra-marital affair with anyone.

Igbokwe and his wife, Juliet, have three children aged nine, seven and five.

Juliet, who said she sold snuff, said Victor was her supplier and he pestered her for six months before she finally gave in.

She explained that she had always told him she was married, but the victim never gave up until he ended up at their matrimonial home on that night.

She said she suspected that the deceased used a charm on her, as she could not explain how it all happened.

She said, “He had been disturbing me that he wanted to marry me, but I said I was married.

“On the day of the incident, I really can’t say if he used a charm on me. All I know is that he called me that he wanted to see me and I told him not to come; he knew my house and when he came, I didn’t know what happened.

“He used to come and deliver snuff to me in the house. On the day of the incident, he told me he was coming from somewhere and that it was already late. He wanted to sleep in our place till the next day. He didn’t know that my husband was away. He tried to sleep with me, but later he didn’t.”

Juliet, who claimed that she got married to her husband in 2005, said the husband did not take good care of her and the children.

She said their marriage had been turbulent and fraught with fights and quarrels.

The mother of three said each time there was a fight, her husband would leave the house for months.