SUSPECT WHO MURDERED 4-YEAR-OLD FOR RITUAL, DIES CONTROVERSIALLY IN POLICE CUSTODY, 2 DAYS AFTER ARREST

The suspect, Fidelis Bossman, a Togolese, was taken ill and died during interrogation, according to the police, but Johnson Habila Magaji, the father of the victim, Psalm Johnson, said he suspected the claim was a sinister attempt to pervert the course of justice. .

Psalm was sold off for N100,000, on on October 15, 2016, by a neighbor, Boniface Sani, to Bossman, at Kuruduma 2, Ugwan Hausawa, Asokoro Extension, Abuja. After being arrested, Bossman, a Togolese, revealed that Psalm was immediately strangled for money-making ritual. .

The two suspects later led detectives to a riverside behind Asokoro village where the decomposed body of the boy was recovered. 2 days after Bossman's on October 25, the case took a strange twist. Police informed Mr. Johnson that Mr. Bossman had died.

“At first, an officer told me that the Togolese had died under interrogation. Shortly after, another policeman said he had fallen sick and died in a hospital," Mr. Johnson said. He said he was later shown a picture said to be of the body of the suspect.

“But I could not be sure whether the person in the picture was actually dead or posing dead to the camera,” Mr. Johnson said. Abuja police command spokesman, AnjuGuri Mamza, however, said the body was in the morgue of the Gwagwalada Specialist Hospital.

At the Gwagwalada hospital, a mortuary attendant who refused to give out his identity confirmed that the police deposited a body at the mortuary on October 26. But the deceased was registered as Fidelis Sirboss, not Fidelis Bossman. 

Credit:premiumtimes

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