Family of Miss Chinyere Awuda, the lady allegedly beaten to death in a club house in Cosmila Hotel, Awka, Anambra State, on Friday rejected the autopsy report presented by the Anambra State Police Command.
The Police Public Relations Officer of the command, DSP Tochukwu Ikenga, had earlier disclosed that pathologists confirmed that the deceased was not beaten to death as alleged, but died of drowning.
However, the deceased’s family lawyer, Barr Ezieafa Charisma, faulted the report, saying it is suspicious.
“Yes, I was there during the autopsy and I thank the pathologists that carried out the job. I challenge the police to release the comprehensive and well detailed report of that autopsy.
“There are other things because, in the course of the autopsy, the pathologists showed that there were some injuries on her rib and some blood stains on her limb.
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“The question to the police is; the report that Chinyere drowned, will that solve the case of murder, a case of that magnitude? Can an unconscious person drown and what led to her drowning?” He inquired.
The counsel, who claimed that the police had been reluctant about the case from the onset, said the family was talked into settlement at the B Division police station, where they case started.
Stating his side, Charisma said: “Chinyere was in the club, there are evidences that she was beaten, there are evidences that there was unrest in the club, there are evidences that some people pursued her when she ran out of the club.
“There are evidences that two persons were in her pursuit, and there were evidences that she was trying to hide, and there were evidences that two persons pursued her to where she went to hide, and later there were evidences that the two persons came out from where Chinyere was hiding without Chinyere.
“In fact, I challenge the police and the management of the hotel to make public the CCTV footage of what happened at the hotel and people should be able to see what happened.”
He charged the police to do the right thing even though the victim had died.
The lawyer stated that the family is putting up a petition to the Inspector General of Police over the police report and how the investigation was carried out by the Police Command.