A man simply identified as Christopher said to be 45 years has reportedly beaten his wife, 39 years old Isoken and mother of three to death over her refusal to give him a N2,000 loan.
The incident happened on Saturday night at No 1, Agbontaen Street, beside Ebvareke Secondary School, off Agboniro street, Uselu, Benin City.
According to Vanguard, the couple’s 13-years old boy Augustine Christopher explained that his father who is a menial worker with a waste manager in Benin, always beat his mother at the slightest provocation.
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The event that led to his mother’s death started with a phone call from his father to his mother where he requested for N2,000 the “my father came home at about 9pm and started beating her and accused her of always embarrassing him each time he requested for money. The Vanguard reports.
“After the beating, I was trying to give my mother paracetamol and water she asked for when my father took the water and drug from me and threw it away. It was after that she went out to pour water on her body and later lie down outside.
“My father locked us (children) inside the room and went out to bounce on my mother where she was lying down outside, already weak from the beating.
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