A 48-year old man has been arrested by the Lagos State Police command on Monday for allegedly raping a 78-year-old woman and causing her serious injury. Imohimin Edgal, the commissioner of police in the state, confirming the arrest of the driver added that the Septuagenarian had asked for directions to a place in Lagos from the suspect.
Instead of helping he raped her. Edgal said the woman was was going to Ketu when the suspect picked her in his bus at the popular Maryland Area. “Unknown to the woman, the commercial bus driver who had ulterior motive, drove her to Adeniyi Jones in Ikeja where he forcefully had sex with her in spite of her old age. A passer-by, who heard the woman’s shouts for help called the police and pointed them to the direction of the screams and he was caught in the act.The woman was bleeding while she was rescued from the scene. The suspect is presently in custody and will be charged to court as soon as investigation is concluded,” the police boss said.
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