A man allegedly stabbed his third wife in the eye, planned to
flee Nigeria, but was caught by the police. Deann Igho married Sylvester
barely a year ago and hoped to have a good marriage
Their affairs had started when she was a student at the University of
Port Harcourt. Their love affair blossomed, and they agreed to get
married.
However, Deann’s parents, siblings and relatives
objected to her marrying 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.
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.
She also, in pains, 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 his 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 bust when someone spotted 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 her wife’s eye.
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