The prime suspect in the murder of a final year female student of the Kwara State College of Education Ilorin, Abdulrahman Bello, Wednesday, told a Kwara state High Court that he did not report the death of the victim to police because he was afraid of her father.
The suspect, who denied killing the deceased, said Hafsoh died when she gasped during sexual intercourse due to an asthma attack.
He however admitted that he singlehandedly carried out cutting of the deceased into parts after taking alcohol.
Testifying before Justice Hannah Ajayi of the state high court, while opening his defense, the suspect said his co-defendants did not have hands in the incident.
Abdulrahman Bello also told the court that he used the knife and cutlass found by police detectives in his two-room apartment at Olunlade area of Ilorin, the state capital, to dismember the body of the deceased.
“I went out to get an inhaler for her when I noticed that she was gasping because she had asthma. By the time I came back into the room, she had died. So, I left my place to take alcohol and returned to cut the body parts into pieces,” he told the court.
During cross examination by the Director of Public Prosecution (DPP), the prime suspect also confirmed that he did not call any of his neighbours, nor did he report the matter at the police station or took the body of the deceased to hospital, “because I was afraid of her father.”
The suspect denied keeping the blood purposely for money making rituals.