SAN FRANCISCO, November 03, (THEWILL) – A 31-year-old man, Rexlawson Jonson has been arrested by men of Ogun State police command over the alleged gruesome murder of his girlfriend, Patricia John during an argument in a hotel room.
The Ebonyi State indigene was arrested following a report by Adebayo Aladesuyi, the manager of Molayo Hotel, Ibafo.
A statement by Aladesuyi said his workers were carrying out a routine check of the rooms in the hotel when they discovered the dead body of the occupant in one of the rooms with bruises on her neck suggesting that the deceased might have been strangled to death.
Following the report, the DPO Ibafo division, CSP Jide Joshua led his detectives to the scene, recovered the corpse and took it to Olabisi Onabanjo University teaching hospital in Shagamu for post mortem examination.
Preliminary investigation by the police 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 an investigation into the murder. Rexlawson was subsequently traced and apprehended by the detectives.
On interrogation, he confessed checking into the hotel with the deceased.
Rexlawson said they both had a misunderstanding and in the process, the woman collapsed and died. He also confessed that he left the corpse in the room and sneaked out of the hotel.
Meanwhile, Ogun Commissioner of police, CP Edward Awolowo Ajogun has ordered the immediate transfer of the suspect to the 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 a situation like this.
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