Wife Dies After Husband Beat Her While Defending His Lover In Port Harcourt
A middle-aged man, Christopher Okon, an indigene of Ikot Abasi area of Akwa Ibom State, has been arrested by the police for allegedly killing his wife and mother of his five children while defending his lover from the wife who intended to beat the lady dating her husband in Port Harcourt, Rivers State.
Okon who is a driver with a company in Port Harcourt, was dating the lady who is his neighbour at Nanka Street in Mile 1, not knowing that his wife, Nsikak, had gotten wind that he has another woman.
Trouble however started the wife came back from the market where she hawks cooked food and discovered that her husband’s lover who is a single mother was feeding her children.
When Nsikak confronted her rival on the right she has in feeding her children when she had allegedly slept with her husband and hardly greets her, the woman took offence and called Okon on phone to tell him that his wife had insulted her.
On receiving the call from his lover that his wife threatened her, Okon quickly returned home and picked a quarrel with his wife. In the heat of the quarrel, Okon allegedly picked a stick and started beating his wife who was still breast feeding their last baby.
Mr Okon got "crazy", he reportedly sent his wife and the daughter she had from her first marriage out of his house and locked the door with his five biological children within.
Unfortunately, the wife who had been suffering from high blood pressure, fell down and collapsed.
All efforts by other neighbours to persuade Mr Okon to take his wife to the hospital proved abortive, as he told them he did not care what happened to her. In the early hours of the following day, the neighbours noticed that the woman was not breathing anymore and they forced the door open and dragged him out to carry his dead wife.
Okon is in police custody as the case is now being investigated. Love and anger, they don't mix well!
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