Enugu State Police Command has arrested 22-year-old man, Chidubem Osuagwu, for allegedly killing his ‘sugar mummy’, Amarachi Chukwu, 32, and stealing her car at her residence.
The command spokesperson, Daniel Ndukwe said the suspect was arrested in Imo State, while attempting to sell a Toyota Corolla car he allegedly stole from his older female lover after allegedly murdering her on November 1 in her residence at Meniru, Awkunanaw in Enugu.
Ndukwe said those police detectives serving in the homicide section of the State Criminal Investigation Department, Enugu, working with police operatives in Imo Command, on November 8 arrested Osuagwu within Nekede axis of Owerri in Imo.
“Investigation revealed that the suspect and his cohort at large, had in the morning hours of the mentioned date, conspired and went to the house of the victim, attempted to make away with her Toyota Corolla key, which she resisted.
“And upon her resistance, they tied her hands, legs and mouth with clothes; locked her inside the house and made away with the car.
“Her decomposing remains were, however, found in the said apartment on November 4, after the door was forced open by police operatives serving in Ikirike Police Division of the Command, following receipt of a report that an offensive odour was oozing out of the apartment.
“The police operatives evacuated the remains to the hospital, where doctors confirmed her dead and the corpse deposited in the mortuary for preservation and autopsy,” he said.
The police spokesman said that the suspect had been arraigned in court upon conclusion of the investigation and had been remanded in Enugu Custodial Centre pending further hearing of the case.
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