Nothing
could be more cruel than a splash of pepper sauce on the face, but the
ensuing drama was even more gruesome than his worst nightmares.
He
tried running out of the house while crying for help but his beastly
wife descended heavily on him with a knife, stabbing him with all the
power she could muster. He managed to shove her off and ran out of his
house screaming for help.
As
if that was not enough, she defied all entreaties by on-lookers, ran
back into the house and returned with a bowl of petrol. Bystanders ran
for their dear lives paving the way for her heinous act. She poured
the contents on him and set him ablaze. On the throes of death, Johnson
staggered to a nearby gutter to put out the fire on his body, but that
made no difference. She came after him yet again to complete the act
with a knife. Even after Johnson was rescued from his murderer and
rushed to the hospital, he could not live to tell the story of what
transpired. That was the fate of Johnson for having a vampire as a wife.
The
dastardly act occurred in Udu Road, Warri, Delta State last October.
As the law was allowed to run its course, Rukvwe, a petty trader in her
early thirties, is currently serving a life sentence in jail handed
down by the court a couple of months ago.
According
to our source, her late husband was a young footballer and pastor in
the area. Saturday Vanguard gathered that trouble ensued after Rukvwe
learnt that her husband had been going out with a young girl in Ughelli,
Delta State and a marriage between both of them was in the offing.
Sources said the wife, who was in her second trimester, got angry and
decided to be brutal with her husband.
“The
man (Johnson) had gone for a programme in Ughelli and stayed several
days, perhaps longer than he had planned. He returned home to Warri to
his pregnant wife; but the naive wife thought he had gone to visit his
girlfriend.”
Sources
added that the woman pretended nothing was wrong as they both went out
for dinner that fateful day before the gruesome act. “She didn’t act as
though anything was amiss. The man had taken his wife our for dinner
that evening. They returned home that night and it was like all was
well. But few minutes after they returned, she threw caution to the wind
and killed her husband.”
For
Mary Anozie, a resident of Ago Palace Way, Lagos State, what started as
a huge joke between Romeo and Juliet snowballed into the death of her
husband.
Apart
from the fact that she currently battles with the psychological and
emotional trauma that may permanently live with her, she carries the
stigma of being a murderess. According to her, “It was a union of
unending battle.” The couple quarreled over trivial issues until she
accidentally ended her husband’s life, thereby making herself a widow.
Narrating her trauma, she revealed to Saturday Vanguard that she could
not explain what came upon her that fateful day.
“People
refused to come to our aid as they thought it was just one of the usual
quarrels we used to have. They thought it was the normal prelude to
lovemaking between couples. So, they didn’t bother to intervene.”
The
widow remorsefully said that “it was like that until that fateful day;
after I had had my baby and my husband claimed he wasn’t buoyant enough
to buy baby food for the new baby. That degenerated into another fight.
“Although
my husband could not be called a man of means, I didn’t believe he
hadn’t the money I asked for to buy the baby’s food. We had quarreled
over that and he had beaten me up like he was wont to severally. It was
painful, and I decided to avenge the beating. So, I picked up a stone
to hit him but it accidentally hit him on the head. I watched him bleed
to death.”
According to a police source, the case has been charged to court, adding that Mary is awaiting trial.
Our source also disclosed that the two children were in the custody of the husband’s family pending court judgment on the issue.
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