A employees of the Division of Safety Companies, DSS, Akwa Ibom State Command, Mr. Ama Okeke has given proof earlier than state Excessive court docket sitting in Uyo, of how the primary accused individual within the homicide of late Miss Iniubong Umoren, Uduak-Abasi Akpan raped and murdered the diseased in his home
Okeke who appeared in court docket because the 10th Prosecution Witness (PW10) mentioned the three accused individuals made their confessional statements voluntarily to the Particular Incident Response Unit of the DSS, Uyo which was video recorded.
He informed the court docket that Uduak Akpan in his confessional assertion narrated how late Umoren refused to have intercourse with him which made him battle along with her including that within the course of, he noticed that the deceased (Iniubong Umoren) has already despatched a voice observe to somebody that he didn’t know.
He added that in frustration, the deceased accepted to have intercourse with the accused on the situation that he wears a condom however later attacked him (Uduak) with an iron close by as quickly as he eliminated the condom he wore.
He mentioned Uduak informed them that to make sure the deceased didn’t shout, he took a black fabric and stuffed it into her mouth and tied it. He mentioned he then used a standby stabilizer to hit her on the stomach which made the deceased bleed profusely.
The DSS officer mentioned Uduak informed them that at that time, he used the denims trouser of the deceased to strangle her, dug a 3feet grave and buried her at about 13:00hours to 20:00hours on the 29th of April, 2021 including that the primary accused informed them that the second accused individual, Frank Akpan who’s his father was not round when the incident occurred.
He mentioned Uduak informed them that the next day when he opened his Fb web page, he noticed to his dismay information together with his image and that of late Iniubong Umoren trending that he was the one which kidnapped her.
He mentioned out of worry, Uduak ran to Calabar to cover in his sister’s home who’s standing because the third accused within the trial including that the investigative workforce was capable of journey to Calabar the place they tracked and recovered the Samsung galaxy cellphone that belonged to the deceased including that these arrested with the cellphone are standing trial additionally.
The trial Decide, Justice Bassey Nkanang admitted the Samson Galaxy cellphone in proof by the prosecution and marked it as Exhibit 13.
However the lawyer to the accused, Samson Adula raised an objection insisting that his shopper made the assertion out of compulsion.
Justice Nkanang, nonetheless, adjourned the case until February 15, for a trial within- trial to find out the declare of involuntariness of the assertion. Supply: DailyPost
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