Man avenges wife's rape by beheading innocent woman in Ebonyi

32-year-old Chinedu Nweke (pictured above) has been arrested for
beheading 45-year-old Philomina Nwega in Ebonyi State.
Nweke claimed he committed the heinous crime to avenge the serial rape
of his wife by men in the murdered woman's village.

According to Sunday Sun, the horrible incident happened on September
6th in Umuzeoka village in Ezza North LGA of Ebonyi State.
Recounting the bizarre tale, Nweke, a farmer, said men from the
village had raped his wife severally, alleging that the repeated
vicious act led to a miscarriage.

"I am a farmer. Villagers raped my wife severally. And it made my wife
to have mis­carriage anytime she was pregnant. I never complained
about this problem to the police. It was on September 6, in the
evening that I saw a woman coming from the farm. I waylaid her and I
used my cutlass to kill her. I cut off her head which I dumped
alongside her lifeless body into the Ogbor stream. I cut her head into
pieces and threw them into the stream.Obviously this guy is sick in
the head. How are you going to kill an innocent women over an alleged
rape of another woman? Continue...

It was at Umezeoka that the people raped my wife and that was where I
killed the woman. Each time my wife was raped I bought drugs for her
but I didn't report the incident to anybody, not even to the village
head or the traditional ruler."When a report was made to the police
about the death of the woman, a search was conducted by a combined
team of the police and the local vigilance group in Achiagu, Ezza
North LGA, where the suspect, Nweke, was arrested with a blood-stained
machete and clothes on September 7th.

Nweke confessed to the police that he killed the woman and dumped her
corpse in the stream along with the head.

Dikko said the headless body was later recovered and taken to the
mortuary of the Ebonyi State University Teaching Hospital, Abakaliki.
The Assistant Commis­sioner of Police, State Criminal Investigation
Department, Mrs Justina Ogbodo also told Sunday Sun that detectives
had recovered the machete allegedly used by Nweke to kill the woman.

ACP Ogbodo said the command was still finding it difficult to recover
the severed head, which Nweke claimed to have thrown into the stream.

While the police continue with the interrogation of the suspect, the
husband of the deceased, Mr. Bar­tholomew Nwega said his primary
headache is seeing the severed head of his late wife recovered so that
she could be given honourable burial. In a broken voice that belied
his grief, he said: "I am pleading with the police to help me recover
the head of my dead wife."

Source: The Sun