A grandmother was brut@lly hacked to de@th while exiting the bathroom at her home in Iyana-Isashi Lagos.
The woman’s daughter, a hairstylist, mentioned that she was at work in Lekki on Saturday, March 14, when she got a call from a nurse – who is her neighbour – informing her that her mother was injured in an attack.
She said she immediately left to make the long journey home to Iyana-Isashi, Lagos, and called her sister to also head home.
Her sister got home before her and informed her that their mother had passed on.
A crowd gathered outside the home where the attack occurred
The hairstylist said that, on hearing the news, she decided to go straight to the police station near their house. There, she said she met a crowd from her community who came to report the attack on her mother. She was also shown her mother’s body.
When she got home, the hairstylist found signs of struggle, showing that her mother had been coming out of the bathroom when she was attacked. She was hit with a stick and her head was hacked open with a cutlass, with bl00d oozing out. Her bl00d stained the sand outside the compound. The bl00d-stained cutlass used in the attack was found in the sand.
A male neighbour in the next compound was also attacked supposedly because he saw what happened. He was unconscious but still breathing when he was found. Footprints and signs of forced entry from the barrier that separates his house from the home of the deceased show that the attacker went from the female victim’s house to chase him in his own compound, leading to suspicions that the attacker saw him watching and wanted to k!ll him to destroy any evidence.
Though the culprit has not been identified, the hairstylist said she suspects her paternal uncle, who has been threatening to k!ll her mother if she doesn’t leave the house. She added that her uncle’s son is an ex-convict who was recently released from prison and she suspects he and his father had a hand in attacking her mother.
She called for justice for her mother and urged the authorities to investigate so as to get to the bottom of her mother’s murd£r.
