Boyfriend stabs lover to death, buries her in shallow grave.

Lover to female staff of Niger Delta
Development
Commission, NDDC, Miss Sophia Phillips
Horsefall, and two others were, yesterday,
arraigned at a Port Harcourt magistrate’s
court by Department of State Services, DSS,
for stabbing her to death after she had refused
to make him, the boyfriend, her next-of-kin to
her bank account as well as her refusal to
give him one million (N1 million) he had
demanded from her.
The accused, Sotonye Martin, Innocent Oluche
and
Wachukwu Ugochukwu committed the murder
on November 8 this year.
Counsel to the DSS, Mr C. S. Eze, told the
court that the first defendant, Mr. Sotonye
Martin, lured the deceased, who he had a 13-
year-old daughter for, to the house of the
second defendant, Innocent Oluche, where he
allegedly stabbed her to death.
He claimed the first and second defendants
later buried the deceased in a shallow grave,
noting that they invited the third defendant,
Wachukwu Ugochukwu, a spiritualist, to
perform some rituals.
According to him, the accused were brought
before the court on a three-count charge
which included “stabbing to death with a jack
knife and thereby committed an offence
contrary to Section 316 and punishable under
Section 319 of the Criminal Code Law, Laws of
Rivers State 1999.”
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- The accused did not take plea. Chief
Magistrate F. Alikor referred the casefile to the
state Director of Public Prosecution, saying
her court did not have jurisdiction to entertain
matters over murder which was the second
charge. She remanded the accused in prison
custody and adjourned the matter indefinitely.