Tragedy: Man Butchers Mother, Buries Her In Bayelsa

A 24-year-old man, identified as Godsgift, suspected to be mentally unstable, Sunday butchered his mother and buried her remains in a shallow grave in Oloibiri, Ogbia Local Government Area of Bayelsa State, throwing the community into mourning.
Sources said the 67-year-old mother of four, identified as Mrs Rose Jonny was killed in her sleep with a machete by her son who dragged her butchered body through the window and buried her in a shallow grave at the back of her house.
The man whose mental state could not be verified, was said to have told the mother that she would not see the next day.
“At about 9.30pm, he was reported to have crept into the mother’s room and butchered her in her sleep.
“He took her bloodied body out of the room through the window and dragged her to the back of the house where he dug a shallow grave, dumped her body and covered it with sand,” a source said.

The neighbours were said to have become suspicious the next day due to the unusual silence from the deceased’s house.
After it was discovered that her door was locked from inside and several knocks on the door were not answered, the neighbours reportedly summoned another son of the deceased and they forced the door open, only to see the entire room splattered with blood.
The neighbours and other children of the deceased were said to have traced the blood stains to a shallow grave at the back of the house where the body of the woman was found.

Confirming the incident, state Police Public Relations Officer, Mr. Alex Akhigbe said the suspect has been arrested and the case transferred from the Ogbia Police Station to the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) for investigation.