Lagos Horror: Policeman Attempts To Kill Wife, Kills Son And Then Tries To Kill Himself

Like a scene from a horror movie,
a police corporal, Lucky Ikharia, on October 30, allegedly used a bus to crush
the legs of his wife, Dupe. Having left her for dead, Lucky went home where he
allegedly stabbed his baby, David, to death, ripping out the toddler’s
intestines.

Still in a rage, the policeman
turned the knife on himself in an attempt to take his own life. Punch Metro, however, learnt that
Lucky and his wife survived but both were in critical conditions.

The incident occurred at the
family’s rented apartment in Kale Close, Mafoluku, Oshodi last week.

It was gathered that four days
prior to the incident, 34-year-old Lucky, who hails from Sabon Gida Ora, Edo
State, had a quarrel with his wife, Dupe over N2,000, after which he reportedly
sent her packing.

The policeman, who is attached to
the Makinde Police Division, Oshodi, Lagos had also ‘seized’ their only child
from Dupe as a means of ‘punishing’ her.

It was learnt that around 8pm on
the day of the attack, Dupe, a 30-year-old indigene of Abeokuta, Ogun State,
was heading for her mother’s house in Mushin unknown to her that Lucky was
waiting in a bus to attack her.

It was learnt that on getting to
Olorunshogo junction, Lucky pursued his wife with the bus, crushing her legs in
the process.

Leaving her for dead, Lucky was
said to have fled the scene while passersby initially thought the attack was
random.

However, after Dupe was rushed to
a nearby hospital on same evening for treatment and had regained consciousness
the following morning, she explained that the man who drove the bus which
crushed her legs was her own husband.

Unknown to Dupe, after her husband
attacked her, he reportedly drove back to their apartment where he stabbed
their child, David, in the belly, before fleeing the residence.

Punch correspondent learnt that
Lucky’s co-tenants and Dupe’s relatives who discovered the baby’s corpse on
Friday morning, reported the incident at the Akinpelu Police Division. It was
also gathered that the knife and the bus had both been recovered.

When Punch Metro visited the
hospital where Dupe was receiving treatment on Monday, the woman, who could
hardly speak, said the cause of the fight was a sum of N2000 which Lucky
claimed she stole.

She said, “We got married and
started living together around October 2013. We usually had quarrels and that
was not the first time he would beat me up, and send me out of the house. But
this incident started on Sunday, October 26. Lucky had initially kept N15,000
with me.

“Then, on Sunday, he collected N5,
000 to repair the bus. Later I gave him the rest, only to realise it was N8,
000. So, he began to question where I kept the remaining N2000. But I knew that
it was his nature to stir up trouble because he had a habit of keeping money
with me and going again to take it.

“So, we began to fight, and he
asked me to leave the house. He did not allow me to take the child with me that
day. I was sleeping in friends’ places until Thursday when I decided to go back
home. I did not find my baby, and when I asked him, he threatened that if he
met me in the house by evening, he would kill me, kill the baby and himself.”

Dupe said she was then called by
her mother to come to their family house in Mushin, adding that as she got on
her way, and was at the Olorunshogo junction, a commercial bus swerved to her
path and hit her several times.

She said, “The commercial bus was
his bus. He was the only man inside. He hit me and I fell. Then he reversed and
came over my legs again. I lost consciousness. That was the last thing I knew.”

Punch learnt from one of the
nurses that Dupe might be admitted in the hospital for about two months and
might spend over N600,000 for treatment owing to the severity of the attack.

One of Dupe’s relatives, Mr. Segun
Akiode, told our correspondent that the family had yet to inform Dupe of her
son’s death. He added that the family also did not know Lucky’s whereabouts.

He said, “I was called on the
phone on Thursday evening that my sister was knocked down at Olorunshogo
junction. When I got there, I met her in a pool of blood. So, we rushed her to
a hospital. It was already around 9.30pm.

“On Friday, when we went to their
apartment, we found the baby boy, stabbed in the belly and already dead on the
floor. We have not told Dupe about his death yet. So, we went to report at the
Akinpelu Police Division, and we were asked to describe the bus which hit Dupe.
When we did, they said the bus was with them in the station, but the
whereabouts of Lucky were still unknown.”

When our correspondent got to the
couple’s rented apartment in Kale Close, Mafoluku, it was learnt from
neighbours that Lucky had not been seen at home since the day of incident.

At the Makinde Division, a police
source told our correspondent that the suspect was one of the patrol van
drivers, but he had not come to work since the day of the incident.

The source added that Lucky, who
was believed to have also stabbed himself, was in an undisclosed hospital
receiving treatment.

The Lagos State Police Public
Relations Officer, DSP Kenneth Nwosu, when contacted promised to get back to
our correspondent on the matter, but he had yet to do so as of press time.

Meanwhile, the corpse of the baby
had been deposited at a morgue in Yaba, Lagos.