DELTA: MAN HANGS SELF OVER ALLEGATION OF DEFILING NEIGHBOUR’S DAUGHTER

A 45-YEAR-OLD MAN, HENRY JEGBEFUME, HAS ALLEGEDLY HANGED HIMSELF IN AGBOR, IN THE IKA SOUTH LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA OF DELTA STATE.

QUEST NEWS GATHERED THE INCIDENT, WHICH HAPPENED ON SATURDAY, THREW THE COMMUNITY INTO CONFUSION.

IT WAS LEARNT THAT PRIOR TO THE INCIDENT, THE DECEASED WAS ACCUSED OF HAVING CARNAL KNOWLEDGE OF HIS NEIGHBOUR’S DAUGHTER.

A SOURCE IN THE COMMUNITY TOLD OUR CORRESPONDENT THAT RESIDENTS ON IREGWA STREET, WHERE THE DECEASED LIVED, WOKE UP TO SEE HIS REMAINS DANGLING FROM THE CEILING OF HIS ROOM.

POLICE SPOKESMAN IN DELTA STATE, DSP BRIGHT EDAFE, CONFIRMED THE INCIDENT, ADDING THAT THE DECEASED HANGED HIMSELF IN HIS ROOM.

HE SAID, “HIS REMAINS HAVE BEEN DEPOSITED IN THE CENTRAL HOSPITAL MORTUARY, AGBOR, FOR AUTOPSY, WHILE INVESTIGATION IS ONGOING.”