Fatal Attraction: Sex Pest Held for Murder in Ogun

Matilda Omonaiye/

A suspected sex pest in Ogun State is now in police net after his alleged exploits ended in murder.

Forty-year-old Abiodun Idowu is being held for the murder of a co-worker, 38-year-old Abimbola Hamzat, who he had allegedly been pestering for sex.

Ogun State police spokesman, Abimbola Oyeyemi told NewsmakersNG in a press statement that the arrest followed “a complaint by one Owolabi Moses, who reported at Onipanu divisional headquarters that the suspect who is a driver in his pure water factory has been disturbing the deceased who was an accountant in the same factory for love affair of which the deceased has been refusing his advances”.

He stated further that “on that fateful day, the deceased was alone in the factory when the suspect came in and attempted to forcefully have carnal knowledge of her. While the victim was struggling with him, he strangled her to death”.

On the strength of the report, the Divisional Police Officer at Onipanu Division, SP Sangobiyi Johnson allegedly led detectives to the scene where they met the suspect unconscious.

Oyeyemi added, “Investigation revealed that the suspect having realized that he has committed a serious crime made efforts to kill himself by drinking hypo and Izal.

“The DPO and his men quickly rushed him to an hospital, for medical attention, where he was treated and discharged before he was taken into custody.”

Meanwhile, the Commissioner of Police, Mr Ahmed Iliyasu, has ordered that the suspect be transferred to the homicide section of the State Criminal Investigations and Intelligence Department for proper investigation and prosecution.

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