Former Vice Chairman of Okolor Inland Community, Udu Local Government Area, Delta State, Austin Ejovwo, who was eventually apprehended and indicted of killing his lover Felicia Akpomeria, claimed he was motivated by an evil spirit.

This news comes after DSP Bright Edafe, the public relations officer for the Delta State Police, stated over the phone that the suspect would soon be charged with a crime.

Family sources claim that Ejovwo committed the crime and then fled to the Ologbo forest to meet a relative.

In a pool of blood from matchet wounds, Felicia was found dead in the lover's bedroom flat on Friday.

The victim's relative Godwin Laya said:

“He admitted the killing of my sister, Felicia, he said it was something that enter his eyes to kill her. He accused his mother of bewitching him.

“I think the killer is diverting attention from his real motives for killing our sister. He did acknowledge at Ovwian Police Division where he was first detained that he was owing our sister.

“For us he wasn’t pushed by any spirit. We hear he had committed an ealier murder. He belongs to the occultic. He either killed our sister for rituals or he killed her to evade a refund of the money he was owing her.

“He ran to his sisters place where they produce palm oil and with his behaviour, the sister wanted to bring him back to the village before she was called from the village that her brother killed a woman.

“It was his sister that took him to Ovwain police station after she was informed. If they had called us before taking him to the police station, if he was brought to us, we would have retaliated our sister’s death because we are angry..

“The government should ensure that justice is served on the suspect.

“The man is a suspected ritualist, because our sister was found near a shrine inside the house, though I was not allowed to see the corpse of my sister at the mortuary by the police.”