Following the report on the 40-year-old Australia-based Nigerian man Stephen Akpata who allegedly murdered his newly wedded wife Onyinye Eze, a staff of Globacom Nigeria Limited few months after their court registry in Bayelsa State.
The Commissioner of Police, Mr. Asuquo Amba, while parading the suspect on Thursday at the state command’s headquarters, said his men discovered that Onyinye’s room was scattered and that she lay dead facing down in a pool of blood.
According to the police boss, exhibits recovered at the scene of crime included a pair of knickers, a pair of canvas, shoes, one damaged pressing iron, a jeans jacket, a pen knife, a pink singlet, a Nokia phone and a damaged wristwatch.
He also disclosed that the marks on Onyinye’s head, face, neck and body revealed that she was probably strangled and then stabbed to death, while her remains had been deposited at the morgue of the Federal Medical Centre, Yenagoa, for autopsy.
Amba narrating how Akpata was arrested, said investigations revealed that the suspect absconded to Ghana after the murder, but returned to Badagry, Lagos State where he was arrested in 1st of September, few days later and brought to Bayelsa the same day.
“When we arrested him, we brought him here. After much interrogation, he agreed that he actually killed the lady. He said the lady (Onyinye) attacked him because of a certain text messages he saw on her phone.
“He has been staying in Australia for a very long time. He claimed to be a Bishop; he mentioned some few churches. We also knew that he was involved in a case that had to do with murder, either as a witness or a suspect.
“We have also seen pictures of him in and out of prisons in Australia. They show that he must have jumped bail because of certain criminal matters in Australia.”
The police commissioner said Akpata had confessed to serving various jail terms in Australian prisons such as Mount Gambier Prison between September 2008 and August 2009; and also in Maribyrnong Immigration Detention Centre, Melbourne, among others would be charged to court soon, while adding that investigation had been intensified.
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