A Kogi high court in Idaho on Wednesday, sentenced one Ocholi Edicha to 12 years and six months in prison for his involvement in the killing of the state Peoples Democratic Party women leader, Salome Abuh.
The deceased was shot in her residence, and both set ablaze in Ochadamu in Ofu Local Government Area of Kogi State during the state’s gubernatorial election in 2019.
The suspect was convicted of criminal conspiracy, armed robbery and culpable homicide.
After the incident, the state Commissioner of Police, Akeem Busari arrested and paraded six suspects, including Mr Edicha in November 22, 2019 in a joint effort with the local vigilantes.
He named the suspects as Ocholi Edicha, Adamu Haruna, Onu Egbunu, Musa Alidu, Attai Haruna Egwu and Attah Ejeh.
Mr Busari identified Ocholi Edicha as the ring leader of the mob that set Mrs Abuh’s residence ablaze.
A MODEL was gunned down with 18 bullets before her suspected killer allegedly abused her corpse and dumped it by the side of a road.
Rebecca Landrith was found dead in Pennsylvania with multiple gunshot wounds on her head, neck and chest, as well as a note in her pocket bearing the name of the man suspected of murdering her.
The 47-year-old’s body was discovered near an interchange ramp in Union County on Sunday morning.
Police believe the former fashion model was killed a few hours before she was found.
In a statement, Union County coroner Dominick Adamo said 18 bullets were found during the autopsy and ruled her death as homicide.
She didn’t have any identification on her when she was found, and some fingerprints and receipts were used by the investigators to establish who she was.
Her suspected killer, Tracy Rollins, was arrested on Wednesdays at his home 250 miles away from the scene in Connecticut, and charged with criminal homicide and abuse of a corpse.
Cops found blood and shell casings in the 28-year-old’s truck after he reportedly tried to clean his vehicle with bleach.
Mobile phone, data and CCTV footage linked Rollins to the locations that appeared on receipts Rebecca had on her.
Rebecca’s brother George Landrith told PennLive that she had been estranged from the family for around five years.
She was born in Alexandria, Virginia, and was the youngest of five siblings, he said.
Rebecca went on to become a professional model and was a finalist for Miss Manhattan in 2014.
On her iStudio page, she wrote: “I adore fashion and the industry and am a warm weather person with a warm heart.
“I have worked with some really great photographers and fantastic people in this industry.
“I love clothes and have a great wardrobe to style myself and bring to shoots.
“I know high fashion labels and have fabulous shoes with all my outfits.”
A report just rocked the social Media this evening about a NYSC Member who just truncated the life of a Young Man in Uyo, the capital city of Akwa-Ibom.
The young serving Corper whose name has been recognized as Odume Princess Paschaline was caught after she killed a Young Man in cold blood in Uyo. According to the person who posted the news on Twitter, @CheifPharmacst said the lady has now been apprehended and taken to the police station in Uyo city.
According to what the posted said on Twitter, Princess Paschaline killed the man with a machete because the deceased person threatened her with the same object. The man said the lady was forced to take the action after the man was fast as sleep at night, because the lady was in the man’s house trading her body for money.
However, Princess Paschaline who is also a serving Corper has now been arrested and taken to the Police Headquarter in the state. Presently, people are looking for the family of the lady, just to let them know what had happened.
The Yorkshire Ripper Peter Sutcliffe has died at the age of 74.
The serial killer was serving a whole life term for murdering 13 women across Yorkshire and north-west England.
His first victim’s son, who was five when his mother was killed in 1975, said Sutcliffe’s death would bring “some kind of closure”.
The former lorry driver, from Bradford, died in hospital where he is said to have refused treatment for Covid-19. He also had other health problems.
Sutcliffe, who was also found guilty of the attempted murder of seven women, was convicted in 1981. He spent three decades at Broadmoor Hospital before being moved to HMP Frankland in County Durham in 2016.https://emp.bbc.com/emp/SMPj/2.36.3/iframe.htmlmedia captionRichard McCann, the son of Peter Sutcliffe’s first victim, Wilma McCann, reacts to his death
Ex-police officer Bob Bridgestock, who worked on the case, said he “won’t be shedding any tears” over the killer’s death.
The murders, which spanned five years from 1975 to 1980, began with 28-year-old mother-of-four Wilma McCann, who was hit with a hammer and stabbed 15 times, in October 1975.
Sutcliffe was interviewed nine times during the course of a huge investigation but continued to avoid arrest and was able to carry on with his killings.
Sutcliffe’s victims
image captionTwelve of the 13 women Sutcliffe was convicted of murdering: Emily Jackson, Irene Richardson, Patricia Atkinson, Jayne McDonald, Jean Jordan, Yvonne Pearson, Helen Rytka, Vera Millward, Josephine Whittaker, Barbara Leach, Marguerite Walls, Jacqueline Hill (Wilma McCann pictured below)
Wilma McCann, 28, Leeds, October 1975
Emily Jackson, 42, Leeds, January 1976
Irene Richardson, 28, Leeds, February 1977
Patricia Atkinson, 32, Bradford, April 1977
Jayne McDonald, 16, Leeds, June 1977
Jean Jordan, 21, Manchester, October 1977
Yvonne Pearson, 22, Bradford, January 1978
Helen Rytka, 18, Huddersfield, January 1978
Vera Millward, 41, Manchester, May 1978
Josephine Whittaker, 19, Halifax, May 1979
Barbara Leach, 20, Bradford, September 1979
Marguerite Walls, 47, Leeds, August 1980
Jacqueline Hill, 20, Leeds, November 1980
Ms McCann’s son Richard said: “The attention he’s had over the years, the continuous news stories that we’ve suffered over the years, there is some form of conclusion to that.
“I am sure a lot of the families, surviving children of the victims may well be glad he has gone and they have a right to feel like that.”
He explained that in about 2010 he had decided to let go of his anger and “forgive” Sutcliffe.
“I am sorry to hear he has passed away. It’s not something I could have said in the past when I was consumed with anger,” he said.
image captionWilma McCann was the first woman Sutcliffe murdered, in 1975
Sutcliffe was dubbed the Yorkshire Ripper because he mutilated his victims’ bodies using a hammer, screwdriver and knife.
He is said to have believed he was on a “mission from God” to kill prostitutes, although not all of his victims were sex workers.
One of his surviving victims said that 44 years on she still suffers from the effects of his attack in Leeds.
Marcella Claxton told Sky News: “I have to live with my injuries, 54 stitches in my head, back and front, plus I lost a baby, I was four months pregnant.
“I still get headaches, dizzy spells and black outs.”
image captionA huge police operation was launched to find Sutcliffe
An inquiry held after his conviction said a backlog of case paperwork meant officers were unable to connect vital pieces of information.
The first two victims, Ms McCann and Emily Jackson, were killed in Chapeltown, which was known at the time for containing Leeds’ main red light district.
Following the second murder, West Yorkshire Police announced they were looking for a “prostitute killer”, leading to accusations key eyewitness evidence was being ignored as it did not fit detectives’ narrative.
Wearside Jack
The investigation was also misdirected by one of criminal history’s cruellest hoaxes, when John Humble tricked police into believing the serial killer was a man dubbed Wearside Jack because of his gruff Sunderland accent.
Police had believed he was the killer despite the victims of Sutcliffe who survived said their attacker sounded like he was a local man.
Humble, who died in 2019, never fully explained why he taunted the press and detectives with letters and an infamous tape recording, in which he anonymously claimed to be the serial killer.
image captionGeorge Oldfield, centre, with detectives who initially believed the hoax tape was genuine
West Yorkshire Police detectives, headed by the then assistant chief constable George Oldfield, believed the letters and tape were genuine and diverted resources to the north east of England.
When Humble was eventually prosecuted, Leeds Crown Court heard claims the delays caused by the hoax left Peter Sutcliffe free to murder three more women.https://emp.bbc.com/emp/SMPj/2.36.3/iframe.htmlmedia captionWhen arrested in 2005 Humble read aloud a section of the hoax tape he sent to police in 1979
Sutcliffe had violently attacked at least three women before he killed Ms McCann.
In 1969, he hit a woman over the head with a stone in a sock. Sutcliffe admitted the offence, but his victim decided not to press charges.
image captionSutcliffe attended Dewsbury Magistrates Court in February 1981 charged with the murder of 13 women and attempted murder of seven others
Six years later, just months before Ms McCann’s death, he attacked two other women with a knife and a hammer but both survived.
Mo Lea, who was attacked aged 20 as she walked home from a pub in Leeds in October 1980, said she had written Sutcliffe a letter while he was in prison.
“I was compelled to write to Peter Sutcliffe to let him know how the fact that he was hanging on to the knowledge that he tried to kill me, was affecting me,” she said.
“And I thought at least if I post it I’ll know that in some way there’ll be a level of understanding. I didn’t expect a response and I didn’t get one but it felt good to put it in the postbox.”
Mr Oldfield’s 200-strong ripper squad eventually carried out more than 130,000 interviews, visited more than 23,000 homes and checked 150,000 cars.
image captionSutcliffe died at the University Hospital of North Durham after being transferred there from maximum security HMP Frankland
But a stroke of luck led to Sutcliffe’s arrest when his brown Rover car, which had false number plates, was stopped by police in a red light area of Sheffield in January 1981.
Mr Bridgestock, who was one of the first on the scene when Josephine Whitaker was murdered in 1979, said senior detectives “wore blinkers” while leading the inquiry.
“It’s the victims that served the life sentence and then the victims’ families that really serve the true life sentences,” he said.
“For them today, they will have some kind of closure.”
image captionAngry crowds gathered outside Dewsbury Magistrates’ Court when Sutcliffe appeared there following his arrest
Mr McCann appealed to West Yorkshire Police to make a formal apology for the language used to describe his mother and other victims in the 1970s.
“They described some of the women as ‘innocent’, inferring that some were not innocent – including my mum,” he said.
“She was a family woman who, through no fault of her own, was going through adversity and made some bad decisions, some risky decisions.”
“She paid for those decisions with her life.”
A West Yorkshire Police spokesman said: “We have received correspondence from Mr McCann and commit to continue to engage with him directly.”
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