The Gombe State Police Command yesterday paraded an 18-year-old man, Mustapha Adamu Isa (Abbati) who was alleged to have killed late Aishatu Abdullahi Adda Damori, a 58-year-old last Saturday in her matrimonial home.

Daily Trust reports that the late mother of eight children was slaughtered by unknown persons in her bedroom last Friday.

The command’s spokesman, ASP Mahid Mu’azu Abubakar, said a formal complaint was received at Pantami Division from Muhammad Sani Abdullahi, a son of the deceased, who reported that his mother was slaughtered with a knife by an unknown person around 09:30pm.

He said the suspect was arrested last Sunday around 01:30 pm in connection to the case following credible intelligence received by the investigative team, which was headed by the Assistant Commissioner of Police, SCID Gombe.

ASP Abubakar revealed that the suspect sneaked into late Aishatu Abdullahi’s room in search of his spanner, which she had earlier seized from him.

He said late Aishatu Damori returned from the neighbour’s (Abbati’s family house), and found him in her room, she questioned him and asked him to leave her room.

“But he refused to leave and a scuffle ensued between them, which resulted in him strangling and killing her with a knife and escaped through the toilet to an unknown destination, leaving behind his stained shirt and knife but managed to escape with the spanner, which was later recovered from him,” he said.

The suspect, Abbati told newsmen that he was in Damori’s room to take a spanner in order to fix a motorcycle brought to the mechanic’s garage, which is located at the frontage of the house.

“It was my first time committing such a crime and I don’t know what came over me to kill her because she was the mother of my friend. I found the knife in her room and used it to stab her severally and later slaughtered and left with the spanner,” Abbati said.

The suspect also confirmed that he had committed the crime alone without support from anybody, stating that he only implicated Idris Abubakar Danjauro. He said he had caused him to be sacked from the garage where they were working together, leaving him unemployed for one year.

The command’s PPRO stated that the spanner, blood-stained shirt of Abbati and the knife were recovered as exhibits. (Daily Trust: Text, Excluding Headline)

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