The Anambra State Police Command have commenced investigation into
the cause of the murder-suicide committed by a man identified as Daniel
Okafor after bathing his wife, Pauline, with acid on Tuesday at Nsugbe,
near Onitsha.
According to reports, the couple had been having disagreement
concerning the choice of their son as the next of kin on a land and a
house which was recently purchased by the wife.
Pauline, a nurse, bought the properties from her in-law and named
their son as next of kin but this didn’t go well with her husband who
then decided to punish her. Pauline was in her place of work, a drug
store, when the husband came in through the fence to bathe her with
acid. She then ran out for help.
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The suspect reportedly drank some of the chemical he had poured on
his wife minutes after committing the crime. He was taken to the
hospital but died while receiving treatment.
It was gathered that the victim was also referred to the Nnamdi
Azikiwe University Teaching Hospital (NAUTH), Nnewi, from the Immaculate
Heart Hospital, Onitsha, where she is currently responding to
treatment.
