The Edo State Police
Command has arrested two students of the Federal Polytechnic, Auchi, Henry
Onoriode Edewo (21) and Emmanuel Isiekhuieme, for the alleged kidnap, rape and
murder of Miss Mercy Peters (21).
The late Mercy was a student of Auchi Polytechnic and was
in the same department with the suspects. She became missing on July 29.
It was gathered that the late Mercy was abducted by the
suspects and taken to a forest at Ugbor in Oredo Local Government Area, where
she was raped. She was said to have been killed four days after the abduction.
The suspects allegedly buried her in a shallow grave in
the forest and started demanding ransom from her family. Police sources said
the family paid some money to the kidnappers, but the hoodlums insisted on N1
million.
Police spokesman Anthony Airhuoyo said the suspects were
arrested on October 17. Airhuoyo said the suspects took the police to where
they buried Mercy. He said her remains had been exhumed for an autopsy. A third
suspect, simply identified as Charles, is still at large.
Source:
The Nation
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