How 21-year-old gay slaughtered Spanish lover over HIV/AIDS scare

The suspect, Raphael Ikechukwu.

Raphael Ikechukwu, a 21-year-old gay, allegedly used a broken bottle to slash the throat of his partner, thus leading to the victim’s death on the 16th April, 2011. In a chat with Oladipo Adelowo, the suspect recounts events that culminated in the dastardly act.

WHAT would have prompted a 21-year-old Raphael Ikechukwu to slash the throat of his Spanish homosexual lover, Gafar Anthony, is a puzzle men of the Lagos State Police Command are trying to solve.

Raphael, who remained obstinate even after committing the crime, said he did not regret killing the Spanish. Currently cooling his feet in the detention of the Lagos State Criminal Investigation Department at Yaba, the suspect insisted that if he had the opportunity, he would kill the Spanish again.

While claiming that he attacked his victim in a bid to defend himself, Raphael alleged that Gafar had attempted to use the broken bottle to stab him when the scuffle began.

Ikechukwu is being held at the  Lagos State Criminal Investigation Department at Musiliu Smith Street, Yaba Lagos  for allegedly slashing the throat of  Anthony, who was said to have come to the country, allegedly  on the invitation of  the suspect before he met his untimely death.

Nigerian Tribune further gathered that  Ikechukwu and the  late Anthony had been lovers for more than two years before the tragic incident occurred on0kill the other.

Ikechukwu allegedly overpowered th late  Anthony during the fight  that ensued beween them and was said to have slashed his throat with a broken bottle.
Officers   from the Homicide Section of the SCID, Musiliu Smith Street, Yaba, Lagos were, thereafter, invited to the scene of the incident,   where they arrested Ikechukwu and took the remains of Mr. Anthony to the mortuary of a public hospital in the state for autopsy.

In his defence, Ikechukwu said Anthony had exposed him to HIV/AIDS virus after he allegedly drugged and raped him.

According to him, “I met Gafar in Ghana and we had been friends for more than two years. He came to Nigeria on the day of the presidential election”.
He stresed that the deceased said  he wanted to come and carry out a research in Nigeria, but  described the excuse as a lie.

“We went out and visited places.  He told me that his lover in Spain had contracted HIV / AIDS and he was  scared.

“I told him to go and do the HIV/AIDS  screening to be sure if he had actually contracted the disease  and he said he would do it when he got back to Spain. But on that  fateful night, while I was sleeping on the same bed with him, I did not know that he had drugged me and after drugging me, he forced himself on me and slept with me. When I woke up in the morning and discovered what he had done to me, I became angry and confronted him, but he was taking the issue with levity,” said the suspect .

He said that was how they started quarrelling, highlighting that it was the deceased who took a bottle and broke it on the wall.

“He  wanted to stab me with it, but I dodged him and  broke my own bottle and stabbed  him in the neck, so that was how he bled to death. But  I did not intend to kill him; I did it in self defence and I don’t regret my action, because he would have killed me if he had had the chance,” Ikechukwu stated.

Meanwhile the Lagos State   Police  Command’s spokes person,  Samuel Jinadu, advised residents to seek peaceful resolution  to disputes instead of resolving to violence and killing.

“We are committed to ridding Lagos State of any  criminal activity. It is important for everybody to be tolerant and desist from any act capable of breaching the peace of the society or lead to the death and injury of others,” he remarked.

The Deputy Superintendent of Police stated this in an interview with newsmen, adding that “the case is being investigated by detectives from the Homicide Department at Musiliu Smith Street,  Yaba, Lagos.

Jinadu stressed that the suspect would be charged to court “as soon as we are through with the police investigation.”

Source : www.tribune.com.ng