Man Stabs His Wife of One Year in the Eye

Deann Igho married Sylvester barely a year ago and hoped to
have a good marriage. Their affair had started when she was a student at the
University of Port Harcourt. Their love affair blossomed, and they agreed to
get married. Deann’s parents, siblings and relatives refused to let her marry
Sylvester. Along the line, she got pregnant for Sylvester and her family didn’t
have any choice but to grant her wish. She moved in to live with Sylvester.
Last year, she gave birth to a baby boy. Deann is Sylvester’s third wife.

First, the man married about five years ago, and the
marriage crashed after producing a child. He married again, but his second wife
did not give him a child before they parted ways. He then married Deann.  Click to read about their fight, how he
stabbed her in the face and how he was caught by the Police.

The fight

Sylvester returned home after being away for two weeks. A
quarrel had ensued between him and the wife in the evening. To Deann, the
matter was settled, but her husband did not want to let go. At night, Sylvester
woke his wife from sleep and demanded that they talked. His wife told him that
whatever discussion there was had to wait till the morning, to avoid waking the
baby, who had cough and catarrh. In a fit of anger, Sylvester stabbed her twice
in the eye, locked the door and escaped.

Since their home on Ada George Road, a developing part of
Port Harcourt, is isolated, neighbours could not hear Deann’s cries. Writhing
in pains and on the verge of bleeding to death, she managed to call her
siblings in Lagos, on phone. She also called her parents and Sylvester’s parents,
who also live in Lagos. Also, in pains, she captured her bleeding face with her
Blackberry phone camera and sent them to those she called.

Her family contacted their friends in Port Harcourt, Mr
& Mrs. Castro, who broke the door and took her out. She was then taken to
the University of Port Harcourt Teaching Hospital (UPTH) for medical attention.

Nero Igho, Deann’s brother, who was in Lagos when he got
this distress call, says he called Sylvester several times, but the latter
refused to pick his call.

After initial treatment, Nero took his sister to police area
command, where the matter was reported. She was, thereafter, transferred to
Lagos State University Teaching Hospital, Ikeja, where by a team of three
doctors confirmed that the eye was dead, after surgery. On her experience,
Deann said: “Sylvester used a knife to remove one of my eyes and locked the
door against me so that I will bleed to death.”

How Sylvester was
arrested

After the attack, Sylvester moved over to Lagos and was
lodging in a hotel. While in Lagos, he told those who called him on phone that
he was in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State. The bubble burst when someone sported him and
told Deann’s family. Nero traced him to the hotel and fooled him into believing
that there was no problem, as they saw the matter as his trying time with his
wife. He followed them home, where the police picked him up. The police said he
would be transferred to Port Harcourt, where the crime was committed.

Sylvester’s plot to
flee Nigeria

It was learnt that Sylvester actually planned to flee
Nigeria, which was why he came to Lagos. He had made arrangements for an
International passport, which he was waiting for before he was nabbed. While
cooling off at Lagos Police Command cell, Sylvester blamed Satan for his
action. He denied stabbing his wife. According to him, the ceiling fan cut his
wife’s face.