Driver murders female accountant while attempting to rape her

The Nigerian Police in the Ogun State Division have arrested a 40-year-old driver in a pure water factory, Abiodun Idowu for allegedly suffocating a female accountant to death after his rape attempt on her failed.

The Police PRO of Ogun State, Abimbola Oyeyemi claimed that this sad event occurred on Tuesday, May 29, 2018.

The PRO said the arrest of the suspect followed a complaint by one Owolabi Moses who reported at Onipanu divisional headquarters that the suspect who is a driver in his pure water factory has been disturbing the deceased who was an accountant in the same factory for love affair of which the deceased has been refusing his advances.

He stated further that on that fateful day, the deceased was alone in the factory when the suspect came in and attempted to forcefully have sex with her, while the victim was struggling with him, he suffocated her to death.

Investigations revealed that the suspect tried to commit suicide when he realized what he has done by drinking Izal and Hypo, but he was rushed to an hospital for treatment, thereafter he was discharged and taken into custody.