A 13-year-old teenage boy in Enugu state and a post primary school dropout, identified Ifesinachi Ugwueze, on Friday beheaded his biological mother at Isiagu Ibakwa in Igboeze South local council of the state, Igbere Tv reports.
The suspect, Ifesinachi, was said to have hacked his mother who’s a widow and was identified as, Beatrice Ugwueze, to death.
The woman according to reports gathered by Igbere Tv was alone with her son in the house and grinding pepper for lunch with her local grinding stone when her son, Ifesinachi descended on her with a cutlass and severed her head from the rest of her body.
The screaming and groan of the deceased alerted the neighbourhood who chased the suspect in his attempt to escape.The incident set the community in a turmoil as an angry mob gathered to lynch the boy. He was tied and forced to drink the pool of blood gushing out of his mother’s lifeless body. He later died before the arrival of the officers of Nigeria Police Force.
Enugu Command Police spokesman, Superindent Ebere Amaraizu, said while confirming the incident, “tragedy had allegedly struck at about 1:30 pm at Isiagu Ibagwa in Igbo-Eze South Local Government Area of Enugu State when a son identified as Ifesinachi Ukwueze, allegedly murdered his mother identified as Beatrice Ukwueze with a cutlass over a yet to be established issues.
Igbere Tv also gathered that the action of the suspect, Ifesinachi angered the mob who had pounced heavily on him and left him lifeless before the arrival of the police.
The dead body of both the deceased mother and the son have been deposited in a nearby mortuary just as a full scale investigations have been launched into the incident, Igbere Tv reports.
