Double tragedy for killer teenage lover as father dies

IT is a double tragedy for a killer teenager, Master Junior Omo Shaba, 19 who recently knifed his 18-year-old girlfriend, Matilda Odiri to death on the night of July 15 over an allegation of infidelity as his father, Mr Monday Shaba has reportedly died from grief.

Omo Shaba, an apprentice tailor is presently being detained at Sapele Road Prison in Benin, popularly called White House, where he is awaiting trial for brutally killing his lover, Matilda from Sapele, Delta state at his Akugbe street, off Siluko road residence in the Edo State capital.

A source who would not want his name in print explained that the grief-struck elder Shaba slumped and died suddenly on August 4 at the family house at his hometown of Uneme Osu, Akoko Edo local government area of the state.

The source added that the deceased, a carpenter, based in Benin fled his rented apartment at uptown Ogida for fear of reprisal attack by either the family of the young girl or some youths in the neighbourhood, as soon as news of the killing by his son filtered in.

The father was said to have travelled to the small town of Afashio, near Auchi, Etsako West local government area with his friends for a burial ceremony on that fateful day, before journeying to his hometown, about 45 minutes drive where he suddenly died.

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The source added that the travails of Junior, a Junior Secondary School drop out broke his father into two as he had a hope of rehabilitating the suspected murderer after he was released from a remand home at Uromi, Esan South East local government area where he was incarcerated for three years for cultism.

The deceased was said to have gone to her boyfriend’s house where she was expected to pass the night but an allegation of infidelity levelled by the green-eyed lover boy against the visitor was said to have degenerated into a fierce argument.

The doping hot lover reportedly stabbed the young girl to death inside his room at about 11 pm and dumped her remains by the roadside in the middle of the night.

In a counter-accusation, the girl was said to have also expressed resentment over her boyfriend’s returning home late as he was already seeing another girl. In a fit of anger, he allegedly stabbed her with a knife in her right breast.