Port-Harcourt: Three Suspects Arrained in Court By DSS For Killing An NDDC Staff..

The Department of State Service has arraigned three persons before the Magistrate Court in Port Harcourt for the killing of an employee of the Niger Delta Development Commission identified as Miss Sophia Horsefall.The suspects were said to have committed the offence on November 8, 2016 at Rumukparale in Obio/Akpor Local Government Area of Rivers State.

They were arraigned on three counts, which include stabbing to death with a jackknife.

The accused persons, who were identified as Sotonye Martin, Innocent Oluche and Wachukwu Ugochuckwu, had allegedly stabbed their victim to death with a jackknife.During the hearing of the matter, counsel for the DSS, Mr. C.S. Eze, said the Martin (first defendant) lured their victim to the residence of Oluche, who is the second defendant in the matter.

Eze told the court that the victim’s corpse was buried in a shallow grave before inviting the third defendant (Ugochukwu), a spiritualist, to the place (shallow grave) to carry out some rituals.The victim had an eight-year-old daughter before she was killed.

However, the suspects did not take their plea, even as the Chief Magistrate, F. Alikor, ordered that the accused persons be remanded in prison custody.

Explaining that the court has no jurisdiction on the matter, the chief magistrate directed that the case file be transferred to the Director of Public Prosecution and adjourned the matter indefinitely.