Samuel Awoyinfa, AbeokutaThe Ogun Police Command has arrested a 40-year-old man, Abiodun Idowu who killed his co-worker, 38-year-old Abimbola Hamzat, while attempting to rape her. Oyeyemi said while the victim was struggling with him, he strangled her to death. On the strength of the report, he said the Divisional Police Officer, Onipanu, Ota Division, Sangobiyi Johnson, led detectives to the scene where they met the suspect unconscious. Oyeyemi said the investigation revealed that the suspect having realised that he had committed a serious crime made efforts to kill himself by drinking hypo and izal. He said, however, the DPO and his men quickly rushed him to a hospital for medical attention where he was treated and discharged before being detained.

Source: Punch June 03, 2018 18:22 UTC