Jennifer: Alleged UniJos ritual killer sings as witnesses testify in court
Jennifer
A student of University of Jos, Moses Okoh, 22, who was standing trial in a High Court in Jos for allegedly killing his 20-year-old girlfriend, Jennifer Anthony, yesterday, sang in court as witnesses testified against him.
Police alleged that Okoh on December 31, 2021, killed Anthony and removed her eyes and other human parts. During trial, a witness, Mr Akubo Lazarus of Busa Buji, Jos, a receptionist at the Domus Pacis Hotel, Jos, told the court that he received the accused person as a guest in the hotel on December 31, 2021 and lodged him in room 302.
He said: “The defendant, who registered in as Moses Oche came to our hotel at about 4:00 p.m. on December 31, came alone, but the late Jennifer joined him a few hours later and he hurriedly came downstairs and picked her to the room.
“I closed for the day and went home and returned on January 1, 2022 for my morning shift. The accused at about noon approached me to check out and I left him at the reception to check the room for any damages.
“On getting to the room I met a lifeless body of a female on the floor in a pool of her own blood, I raised an alarm, but he had already absconded from the premises.”
Another witness, Mrs. Elizabeth Dung, a kitchen attendant at the Domus Pacis Hotel, told the court that she served the defendant two plates of food and cutlery set on the said date of the murder.
“I was in the kitchen when the defendant came to me and asked for two plates of food, I took the food to him with two spoons and two forks.
“I know all the cutlery in the kitchen having worked there for a long time, the fork shown to me in the court now is the same one I served him that day.” Dung said.
“I recognise the accused person as the same person I served food on December 31 and the fork is the same one I served him with, but it was not bent and it did not have blood stains when I served him,” she said.
After listening to the witnesses and counsels to both parties, the trial judge, S.P Gang, adjourned till March 4, for continuation of trial.
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