Port Harcourt serial killer: Urge to kill comes to me like hunger - Suspect confesses
- Gracious David West, the suspected serial killer, responsible for over 15 deaths have reportedly confessed
- According to the police, David West confessed to killing five girls in PortHarcourt, seven Owerri and three in Lagos
- The suspect, however, claimed that the killings have no motive, adding that the urge to kill comes to him like hunger
Gracious David West, the suspected serial killer allegedly responsible for the deaths of over 15 girls in different hotels in Port Harcourt, Owerri and Lagos, has reportedly owned up to the crime.
According to a report filed the Guardian, David West said the urge to kill comes to him like hunger.
Legit.ng gathers that he reportedly confessed to having carried out five killings in Port Harcourt, seven in Owerri and three in Lagos.
David West told the state police commissioner, Mustapha Dandaura, during his interrogation and parade at the state police headquarters he didn't have any motive for the killings other than "the urge".
David West was quoted to have said: "I don't know what is making me kill, immediately the urge comes on me, I kill.
"After killing, I will start regretting. I even went to a church and told the pastor that I have been killing girls in hotels. The pastor invited me to see the senior pastor during a programme but I waited and couldn't see him so I left the church and went back and lodged in a hotel and resumed killing."
Further confessing, David West said he also made monies from his victims, adding that he used proceeds from previous victims to perpetrate further killings.
"While the argument is on, some of them will tell me not to kill them that they have money in their accounts and can offer anything just to save their lives.
"I will ask them how much? They will check it before me; when I confirm the account balance, I will collect the pin number and after the day breaks, when I must have killed them, I will go to ATM and collect the money in the account.
"I will use the money and get other girls. I have killed five girls in PortHarcourt, seven Owerri and three in Lagos. I started the killing in Lagos, that was where I got money because the first girl had N52,000 in her account. After that I went to PortHarcourt, then Owerri, I returned to PortHarcourt. The last girl I killed I met her at the club," he said.
He added that he made additional monies by selling his victims' phones to phone dealers in waterlines and Eleme junction in Port Harcourt.
Meanwhile, the state police chief, Dandaura, said David West's arrest was aided by the compliance to the directives given to hotels in the state to install Close Circuit Television Cameras(CCTV).
He said: "One of the hotels in Port Harcourt who complied with our directive to install CCTV cameras in the reception and hotel corridors was monitoring the camera and saw the picture of the suspect Gracious David West and uploaded the video online and it went viral on social media.
"The hotel later reported to the police about the development and released to us the telephone number he dropped with the hotel.
"We began to track him on his phone, and with God on our side, and he was arrested along Bori axis of East-West Road while on his way to Akwa Ibom, yesterday(Thursday) afternoon."
The state police boss said the SARS operatives arrested the suspect on their stop and search duties, adding that the viral photo helped them in identifying David West.
Dandaura continued: "The command's Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS), team were on their usual stop and search duties when they intercepted a commercial bus heading towards Uyo, Akwa Ibom state.
"When they offloaded the passengers of the vehicle for one-on-one search, with the help of the viral photo, they saw the suspect in the same attire (strip T-shirt and blue trousers), on the video, which he is also putting on now.
"The SARS team called my attention to it on phone and I asked that they brought him straight to my office.
"They brought him in handcuffs, the moment he stepped into my office, I called him by his name, David-West, he answered, and I said to him, 'Welcome to my office.'"
Dandaura added that David West confessed to the crime immediately without being subjected to any form of grilling.
"He then said to me, 'Please sir, I am ready to tell you the truth, I don't want any problem.'"
"It was at that point that I directed that they unlock his handcuffs so he could relax and be free to talk and give me all the necessary information that I need," the police chief said.
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Legit.ng earlier reported that the police said the 26-year-old David West is from Buguma local government area of Rivers state and also a member of the Degbam cult group.
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