UNIPORT Final-Year Student Confesses After Stabbing Girlfriend to Death in Edo

UNIPORT Final-Year Student Confesses After Stabbing Girlfriend to Death in Edo

  • Operatives of the Edo State Police Command have arrested a final-year student of UNIPORT, Victor Ochonogor for murder
  • Ochonogor was arrested after stabbing his girlfriend, Success Regha, to death in Benin City, on Monday, August 28
  • The suspect said that his late girlfriend, whom he had been dating for 3 years came from Asaba to Benin to visit him

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Edo state, Benin-City - A final-year student of the University of Port Harcourt (UNIPORT), Victor Ochonogor, has been arrested by the police for allegedly stabbing his girlfriend, Success Regha, to death in Benin City, Edo state.

The 24-year-old suspect killed Sucess at 10, Osahon Street, Ogheghe Quarters, off Sapele Road, on Monday, August 28, The Punch reported.

Uniport final-year student, Victor Ochonogor stabs girlfriend to death/ Victor Ochonogor arrested for stabbing girlfriend to death
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The state Commissioner of Police, Muhammed Dankwara, made this known at a press conference on Tuesday, August 29.

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According to Premium Times, Dankwara explained that Ochonogor’s landlord, Emmanuel Momoh, reported the case to the police.

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The suspect stabbed the deceased several times in the neck and the chest with a knife.

“Police operatives immediately swung into action, arrested the suspect, recovered two knives, and rushed the victim to the hospital where her body was deposited in a morgue.
“Items recovered from the suspect were two blood-stained knives, two iPhones, one Nokia phone, one laptop, and two ATM cards.

Why I stabbed my girlfriend to death - Ochonogor

Ochonogor told newsmen that the deceased came from Asaba to Benin to visit him and that he had been dating her for three years.

He claimed that she accused him of being a kidnapper and he was angered by the accusation.

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In another report, Victor said he found some fetish substances in her possession and that led to an argument that resulted in the girl stabbing him and he stabbed her back.

“I have been dating her for three years now and she accused me of being a kidnapper. I asked her why she was accusing me of being a kidnapper,”

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The state police spokesperson, SP Chidi Nwabuzor, disclosed this while parading Ahuwa and 197 other suspects.

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