Retired magistrate killed by ex-house hep in Ogun

A retired Chief Magistrate in the Ogun state judiciary, Mrs. Olufunmilayo Timehin, was on Friday killed by her former male househelp, David.

Sixty-five-year-old Timehin was butchered to death inside her private residence at Laderin Estate Area of Abeokuta, Ogun state.

Sources told WITNESS NIGERIA that the suspect was employed few months ago to attend to domestic chores of the retired judicial officer, but was laid off some two weeks ago for stealing his employer’s valuables.

Perhaps in retaliation to the sack, the househelp reportedly scaled the fence of his former employer on Friday, and slaughtered her.

Though the woman was all alone while the act was being carried out, her son, Olumide, arrived the premises when the suspect was about escaping through the back fence into the nearby bush.

The son summoned courage, scaled the fence after the assailant and called the attention of the state Vigilance Service operatives around to the incident.

Wanting to feign madness to evade justice, David had undressed himself when people gathered to arrest him.

He was subsequently arrested and handed over to the police from the Kemta Police Division led by Jonathan Ugwu, the Divisional Police Officer.

People from across all strata have besieged the deceased judicial officer’s home to ascertain the trueness of the strange story.

The State Chief Judge, Olatokunbo Olopade, also led some state’s judicial officials there around 6.02pm. The corpse has been deposited at a mortuary.