The 23-year-old suspect, Solomon Peter, who allegedly killed his 25-year-old girlfriend, Patience Zakaria in Bauchi claimed he stabbed her in self defence.
Speaking with Daily Trust on Wednesday, the suspect said he stabbed the deceased as a form of self-defence after the deceased received a call from another man he suspected she was cheating on him with.
“We were having an issue which I was trying to resolve. This is over one man who called her a prostitute. I asked her what relationship she had with the man and the next thing was her breaking a bottle on my head. She hit me with a bottle and there were witnesses when the incident happened.”
He claimed that after the deceased hit him with the bottle, he took a knife inside the room “and used the knife on her.”
“It was not that I tred to kill her but I did it as a self defense because she broke my head with the bottle. At the time of the incident I did not intend to kill her rather, I acted in self defense out of anger. Our relationship is over one year and I had intention to marry her. I feel very bad over the outcome of my action, it was not intentional. I regret my action,” he added.
A neighbour of the deceased, who spoke to Daily Trust, in anonymity, said that the deceased and Solomon were popularly known to be in a romantic relationship by most of the people in Gwallameji.
“The deceased received a phone call from a male friend and Solomon got jealous and started quarreling as she was trying to explain to him, he pounced on her," the source said. .
“She took a bottle, hit him on the head in self defence because the beating was too much for her and the man picked up a knife and stabbed her in the back in retaliation.
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