A 24-year-old 400-level student of the University of Port Harcourt, identified as Victor Ochonogor has been arrested by operatives of the Edo State Police Command for allegedly stabbing his girlfriend, Success Regha, to death in his Benin City residence on Monday.
Ochonogor, a student of Applied and Industrial Chemistry, reportedly committed the offence at 10, Osahon Street, Ogheghe Quarters, off Sapele Road, Benin City.
He and his late girlfriend were said to have locked themselves inside the house and started stabbing each other when the incident occurred.
Ochonogor suspected to be a ‘Yahoo boy’ was said to have stabbed the deceased in the neck and chest with a knife.
Parading the suspect at the police command, the Commissioner of Police, Dankwara Mohammed, said the matter was reported to the police about 4p.m., on August 21, 2023, by the suspect’s landlord, Emmanuel Momoh and they swung into action immediately.
The suspect told journalists that he had been dating his late girlfriend for three years, adding that she came from Asaba to Benin to visit him and while they were together, she accused him of being a kidnapper and he was angered by the accusation.
“I have been dating her for three years now and she accused me of being a kidnapper. I asked her why she was accusing me of being a kidnapper,” he said.
