A man has beaten his wife to death in Edo State because she did
not loan him N2,000.
The man simply identified as Christopher, 45, reportedly called
his wife Isoken on the telephone to ask for N2,000 loan, but did not get the
money upon returning home, and started beating his wife.
His oldest son Augustine, 13, who described his father as a
chain smoker and drunk, said the suspect tried to flee their two-room apartment
in Benin after the alleged crime but was apprehended by residents who handed
him over to police.
Augustine
further said his father is troublesome and often beat his mother.
He said: “I tried to give my mother paracetamol and water after
the initial beating, but my father threw them away. She then went to bathe,
after which she lay down outside to rest before coming inside to sleep, but my
father locked us inside the room and resumed the beating of my weak mother
outside.
“Neighbours later helped us (the three children) to open the
door, only to see our dead mother on the ground. She was rushed to two
different hospitals in the neighbourhood, and was confirmed dead.”
Police spokesman Bello Kotongs confirmed the incident.
Source: The Nation newspaper
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