The Boy Who Killed This Lady & Her Baby Just Escaped From Custody

A murder suspect, identified as Gift Edosomwan, who was arrested for allegedly killing a mother and her 3-year-old daughter, has reportedly escaped from custody, where he was being detained in Benin, Edo State.

The mother and child were allegedly stabbed to death at their residence on Osaze Street, off Dumez Road, in the Ikpoba Okha area of the state.

The little girl’s loud cry when she saw that her mother was in danger made the crazy killers to stab her in the back and chest before they fled the scene.

It was learnt that Edosomwan, who is 15yrs old, escaped last Saturday from the juvenile home where he was being held at Upper Sakponba.

He and others, now at large, were alleged to have gruesomely murdered the 28-year-old lady, Itohan Enagbare, and her daughter, Iwinosa, at about 1pm on December 9, 2015.

The landlady of the house where the incident occurred had earlier been arrested, but was later released when Edosomwan (suspect) was arrested.

The teenager, said to be living with the landlady, was later arraigned in court and remanded in prison.

Counsel to the victims family, Jefferson Uwoghiren, who raised the alarm, described the disappearance of the killer teenager as worrisome.

He also called on law enforcement agencies to re-arrest the teenager and those responsible for his escaped.

When contacted on Sunday, the State Police PRO, Osifo Abiodun, said that he had yet to receive any report on the incident.

Abiodun said, “Although I am not aware of that incident, it is not from the police custody that he escaped if at all there is anything like that. If there is any escape from custody, either prison or not, and the matter is reported to the police, of course, it is the duty of the police to go after the suspect. I am not aware now.”

The mother and daughter were buried side by side in March 2016 at Erediuwa in Benin City. How sad!