Family narrates how rising designer was killed by ex-lover

By Esther Onyegbula

More chilling details person emerged connected however 29-year-old interior designer, Deborah Eneyi Okwori, popularly known arsenic Deb’rah Porsche, was brutally murdered successful her Ogba flat by her ex-lover, Ugali “Lintez” — contempt ending their narration implicit a twelvemonth ago.

According to Deborah’s elder sister, Hope, who spoke to Vanguard, the fishy had been stalking the unfortunate relentlessly since their breakup, utilizing antithetic telephone numbers and societal media accounts to scope her.

“He kept calling and threatening my sister. At 1 point, helium adjacent pretended to beryllium sick, sending photos from a infirmary furniture to lure her back. My sister blocked him everywhere, but helium kept coming back,” Hope said.

Recounting the attack, she added: “On the time of the attack, Wednesday evening, the fishy reportedly disguised arsenic a dispatch rider to summation entree into the estate. My sister was the lone 1 astatine home, arsenic I had near with my different sister for enactment connected the Island. We were connected nighttime shift. It was not up to 1 hr aft we near the location successful Ogba that I received a telephone that she had been attacked.

She had locked lone the nett door. He archetypal chopped the state tube extracurricular the kitchen, hoping to origin an explosion, but erstwhile that failed, helium broke the nett door, forced his mode successful and pounced connected her. After breaking into the apartment, helium repeatedly stabbed Deborah successful the backmost and chest.”

One of the neighbours, who spoke connected information of anonymity, confirmed the family’s account.

“We heard Deborah’s dependable screaming for help, and erstwhile we got wrong the apartment, we recovered her successful a excavation of blood. The fishy was lying connected the level pretending to beryllium dead. Later, helium started shouting that she stabbed him connected the cervix to make the content of a fight. But determination was nary chopped connected his neck.

By the clip we rushed her to the hospital, the doc confirmed her dead, saying that it was 1 of the stabs astatine her backmost that pierced her lungs deeply.”

Hope besides raised suspicions astir a telephone telephone earlier that time from the suspect’s mother:

“Ironically, earlier that morning, his parent had placed a telephone to Deborah. We don’t cognize wherefore she called her, lone for this to hap successful the evening. Even his household knows the benignant of lad they have.”

She revealed that Deborah was not the archetypal people of the suspect’s convulsive obsession:

“After this incident, we got to cognize that the miss helium dated earlier besides had to relocate due to the fact that of his threats. He erstwhile told my sister that if helium didn’t wed Deborah, humor would flow. We thought helium was joking. Now, helium has fulfilled that threat.”

The household described Deborah arsenic hardworking, easygoing, and connected the verge of a large vocation breakthrough successful interior design.

“She had conscionable secured her archetypal N13 cardinal declaration and was astir to motion another. She was gathering her marque and supporting her younger siblings aft our mother’s retirement. Now, helium has chopped her beingness short,” Hope lamented.

Calling for justice, the grieving sister insisted:

“We privation a thorough investigation. He planned this murder. He should not flight justice.”

Meanwhile, detectives person already visited the transgression scene. Confirming the incident, the Deputy Police Public Relations Officer, Lagos State Police Command, DSP Babaseyi B. Oluseyi, said investigations are ongoing and that the lawsuit has been transferred to the State Criminal Investigation Department (SCID), Panti, for further action.

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