Deann Igho married Sylvester barely a year ago
and hoped to have a good marriage. Their affair had started when she was
a student at the University of Port Harcourt. Their love affair
blossomed, and they agreed to get married. Deann’s parents, siblings and
relatives refused to let her marry 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.
The fightSylvester
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. Also, in pains, she 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 her 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 arrestedAfter
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 burst when someone sported 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 NigeriaIt
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 his
wife’s face.
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