The suspects identified as John-Paul Chukwuebuka, 19, Ebuka Chimudi, 22 who belonged to a gang that specializes in luring young ladies to hotels, dispossessing them of their belongings and raping them committed the crime on April 10, 2013.
Apparently Oluwatosin was approached by two members of the gang disguising as customers at the Happy Day Hotel, Orile, who in turn followed the suspect to her room in the hotel which she had paid for at the cost of N3, 500 per day. The suspects on getting to her room, were said to have stuffed her mouth with a cloth to prevent her from screaming, tied her hands while they took turns in raping her.
After raping their victims the suspects stole her phone, money then locked the door to her room and threw the keys into a canal.
The deceased body was said to be found the following morning after hotel workers ecame suspicious whein they went to the room to clean it up but met the door locked after several failed response by the deceased the door was forcefully opened.
The suspects confessed to the crime saying it killing her was not intentional, saying the role they played in the crime was a minor as the prime suspects are still at large.
The police said that the arrest of one of the suspects, Chukwuebuka by members of the Odua Peoples Congress at City Point Hotel, Apapa, where he had gone to commit a similar crime led to the arrest of the other suspect, Chimudi.
Chukwuebuka who is not new to this crime during his confession also identified other suspects as Williams, Victor, Joshua and Kojo saying: “We have been doing this thing for a while now. We have operated in brothels in Ajegunle and Kirikiri. I have raped over five girls, but none of them died.
“We operate in hotels where there is loud music and many rooms. We usually use rooms that are not located on the ground floor so if a victim shouts, no one would hear her.”
Meanwhile her mother, Muibat, is devastated over the death of her daughter, who is the first child and confused over the kind of her life her daughter had chosen while the father, Babatunde who said the matter was reported at the Orile Police Station and his daughter’s corpse was taken to the Mainland Hospital, Yaba said he as unaware that his daughter was a sex worker and that they had been looking for her since December last year and had reported her missing at the Adeniji Adele Police Division on the Lagos Island.
He said, “My daughter was in JSS3 in 2012 when she dropped out of school. She said she wanted to be a sales girl and we got a job for her, but she did not stay there. Suddenly, in December last year, she left the house and did not return home.
“Her mother and I called her on the telephone several times, but she would say she was fine and putting up in a friend’s place. She used to visit her grandmother, but in January, she stopped picking calls.
“All attempts to get her proved abortive. We did not hear anything from her until we received a telephone call a few days ago, saying her corpse had been found in a hotel.”
The hotel has however declined to comment on the incident.
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