Matilda Omonaiye/
The Police in Lagos have held a man who stabbed his wife to death at the Morogbo area of the state yesterday.
Yet to establish the motive behind the cold blooded murder, the Lagos State police spokesman, CSP Benjamin Hundeyin, told NewsmakersNG that the suspect, identified as Peter Dike, confessed to detectives at Morogbo Division that he killed the wife.
Hundeyin said that the police arrested Dike at the scene of the crime and recovered a bloody kitchen knife suspected to have been used in the attack.
According to police situation report, detectives on surveillance township monitoring patrol at Oke-Ira, Ilogbo Eremi, swiftly moved in after receiving information at about 11.25 am yesterday that Dike had killed his 38-year-old wife.
The police told NewsmakersNG that the lifeless body of the wife was found, in front of him, in her pool of blood.
The suspect was promptly arrested and the corpse was deposited at the morgue of the General Hospital in Badagry for preservation while further investigation will continue at the SCID, Panti, Yaba.
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