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The Police in Oyo state has arrested a 37-year-old commercial motorcyclist for allegedly raping a 34-year-old woman; and cutting off the head of the victim’s five-year-old son.
The state Commissioner of Police, Shina Olukolu, disclosed this to newsmen on Friday; during a brief at the headquarters of the command in Eleyele, Ibadan.
The suspect is one of the 17 suspects paraded for offences ranging from impersonation; attempted kidnapping and conspiracy to armed robbery.
Olukolu said the woman and her son boarded the motorcycle of the suspect; from Oja-oba market in Igbo-ora in Ibarapa local council of Oyo state on December 8 at about 8:00 p.m.
According to him, the suspect diverted the woman and her son to his house at Imeleke road, Lawal Estate in Igbo-ora; and forcefully had unlawful carnal knowledge of her three times before daybreak.
“The following day, the suspect took the woman’s son to another room; and beheaded him with cultlass.
“He claimed to have dumped the remaining body at a nearby bush beside his house.
“The remaining body part was later recovered at the backyard of the suspect; and deposited at the mortuary of the General Hospital for autopsy,” Olukolu said.
The suspect told newsmen in an interview that he was befriending the woman; and intended to marry her.
He said he did not know what came over him; prompting him to kill the boy and that he had no intention of using the boy for rituals.