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Lagos: After 36 Days, Missing Mum Of Two Found Dead, Body Mutilated [PHOTO]

Missing Mum Of Two Found Dead

Lagos: After 36 Days, Missing Mum Of Two Found Dead, Body Mutilated [PHOTO]

EKO HOT BLOG reports that Mercy Henry, a mother of two, has been found dead, with her body mutilated.

She is believed to have been killed for ritual purposes.

Mercy, 35, had told her family she was going to Ijegun, a suburb in Lagos State on December 16, 2021 and was subsequently declared missing. According to her father, Pa Henry Ekienabor, Mercy was found, mutilated and buried in different sacks behind a building belonging to the prime suspect, Mayowa Timothy Bamidele.

It would be recalled that Bamidele had repeatedly and vehemently denied seeing Mercy. In fact, he maintained that he last saw her four years ago. But the recent discovery shows he is not telling the truth.

The deceased’s grieving father, Pa Ekienabor, 70, choking on emotion, said per New Telegraph: “It’s rather unfortunate that my daughter was killed, mutilated and buried at the back of Mayowa’s house. She was killed on the same December 16th, 2021 that she left home.

“Police called my son on January 14th, 2022, to tell us the development. I was hoping and praying that maybe they had been able to track and locate where her captors kept her. The Police told us that she was murdered in cold blood, mutilated and then buried. After mutilating her corpse, she was then packed into five sacks and buried at the back of Mayowa’s house.

“Police have gone to the scene to exhume her remains.”

The breakthrough in the case was said to have started after the Police arrested four people alongside Mayowa. During interrogation, the detectives told the four suspects that anyone who gives them useful information wouldn’t be punished. One of the four men was said to have volunteered information to the police. Police went the scene, searched the house and found the spot where Mercy was buried.

The operatives were said to have recovered her handbag, Automated Teller Machine (ATM) card and phone. These items were hidden in one of the uncompleted houses inside the blocks.

Pa Ekienabor added: “All the men of God, women of God, pastors, Bishops, I went to, all assured me Mercy was being kept somewhere, that we should pray, that she would come out, we didn’t know that she had been killed and buried for long.”

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