A Chief Magistrates Court sitting in Awka, the capital of Anambra, has remanded a native doctor, identified as Nonso for attempting to bury his lover and her two children alive.
Nonso, who hails from Umuona in the Aguata Local Government Area of the state, was brought before the court on Wednesday and was remanded in prison for attempted murder.
The native was said to have sent a commercial motorcyclist to bring the his lover, who is a single mother and her children.
According to reports, Nonso slit the throat of the single mother and attempted to bury her and her two children in an already dug grave at his backyard.
Narrating her ordeal, the victim said she agreed to follow the motorcyclist to the native doctor’s house because he had earlier promised to marry her.
According to her, “On that fateful day the suspect sent a bike man to bring me and the kids to his house. He didn’t allow us to go home that day because it was already late. He later told me that he has a surprise for me, and he used a white handkerchief to blindfold me.”
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She said it was at that point that she struggled to know what was happening, but unfortunately, it was late as the suspect had already brought a knife and started slitting her throat.
The victim further noted that although she struggled for her life, she was overpowered and dragged to an already dug 4-5ft grave in the suspect’s backyard and she was pushed into the grave. She also said that the suspect, who threw a big stone over her head, went to bring a shovel to cover her, when she started shouting, thereby alerting the suspect’s sister, who had long slept off.
According to her, it was the suspect’s elder sister who came to her rescue after she had also alerted members of the public, who captured the native doctor, but by then, the bike man, who was his accomplice, had escaped.
During the proceedings at the Children, Sexual and Gender-Based Violence Court presided over by Genevieve Osakwe, the charge was read to the defendant, but no plea was taken.
Also, the court remanded the defendant at the correctional centre and ordered that the police transmit the original case file to the office of the Attorney General.
The matter was adjourned to December while the police were ordered to ensure the arrest of the fleeing accomplice.