Policeman Crushes Wife's Legs; Kills Baby Over N2,000

For allegedly taking the sum of N2,000 from her husband's pocket without telling him, a 30-year-old housewife, Dupe Ikharia, has had her legs crushed by her police officer husband, Lucky Ikharia, who also murdered their baby in the process before attempting to kill himself.

The 34-year-old officer attached to the Makinde Police Division, Oshodi, Lagos, had allegedly used his bus to run over his wife several times, and thinking he had killed her, fled the scene, went home and stabbed his baby son, David to death, ripping the toddler's intestines, before turning the knife on himself in an attempt to take his life.

Lucky, who luckily did not die from his self inflicted wounds, is no where to be found while his wife, is said to be in a critical condition.

The incidence which occurred at the family’s rented apartment in Kale Close, Mafoluku, Oshodi, on October 30, 2014, is still sending ripples down the spines of those who knew the otherwise calm police officer who must have allowed the devil to take a hold of him.

Punch Metro reports that four days prior to the incident, Lucky, who hails from Sabon Gida Ora, Edo State, had a quarrel with his wife, Dupe, over the missing N2,000, after which he reportedly sent her packing. The policeman, had also ‘seized’ their only child from Dupe as a means of ‘punishing’ her.

At about 8pm on the day of the attack, Dupe, an indigene of Abeokuta, Ogun State, was heading for her mother’s house in Mushin, unknown to her that Lucky was waiting in a bus to attack her. It was learnt that on getting to Olorunshogo junction, Lucky pursued his wife with the bus, crushing her legs in the process.

Leaving her for dead, Lucky was said to have fled the scene while passersby initially thought the attack was random. However, after Dupe was rushed to a nearby hospital on same evening for treatment and had regained consciousness the following morning, she explained that the man who drove the bus which crushed her legs was her own husband.