Rexlawson Johnson, a 31- year- old indigene of Ebonyi state, has been arrested by men of the Ogun state police command on the over the gruesome murder of his girlfriend.
The arrest followed a report by one Adebayo Aladesuyi who is a manager of Molayo Hotel, Ibafo, who reported that while they were carrying out routine checks of the hotel rooms, they discovered the dead body of the occupant of one of the rooms with bruises on her, suggesting that the deceased might have been strangulated.
The Ogun state Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), DSP Abimbola Oyeyemi, in a statement made available to Blueprint further stated that the DPO, Ibafo division, CSP Jide Joshua, led his detectives to the scene and deposited the corpse at Olabisi Onabanjo University Taching Hospital, Sagamu, for post mortem examination.
Oyeyemi noted that preliminary investigation revealed that the deceased checked into the hotel with a man who sneaked out of the hotel after killing the woman.
Consequently, the DPO and his men commenced technical and intelligence based investigation which led to unraveling the identity of the suspect. He was subsequently traced and apprehended by the detectives.
On interrogation, he confessed checking into the hotel with the deceased and that they had a misunderstanding which led to physical assault between them.
In the process, he said the woman collapsed and gave up the ghost. He subsequently left the corpse in the room and sneaked out of the hotel.
Meanwhile, the Commissioner of police, Edward Awolowo Ajogun, has ordered the immediate transfer of the suspect to homicide section of the State Criminal Investigation and Intelligence Department for further investigation and diligent prosecution.
He also appealed to hoteliers in the state to always have proper documentation of their customers in order to assist the police in such situations.
