On Thursday, April 29, 2021, 20-year-old Akpan lured Umoren, a fresh graduate of the University of Uyo, to his lair in the guise of offering her a job and took her life after raping and torturing her to death, police say.

The incident transpired in Uyo, the Akwa Ibom State capital, south of Nigeria.

Sporting a self-indicting yellow T-shirt on a wet day in Uyo, Akpan says he acted in self-defence after Umoren bit his index finger.

He had lured Umoren to his home from social media.

"She came for a supposed job interview and I used reverse psychology on her. I asked her whether she can work in a farm where hard drugs are kept--as a secretary. And she said that she can and that she's ready to do the job.

"So, when she came, I revealed to her that this farm doesn't exist, that there is no farm like that. That it was just a hoax. Then I told her that before she leaves, I'd like to have sex with her. She agreed," he says.

He adds that; "then she gave a condition that I should use a condom, which I did. When I removed the condom, she became furious and used the nearby stabilizer to hit me on my head and bit me on my left hand finger.

"While I was bleeding, in a bid to stop her, I used the stabilizer to hit her and when I hit her, she fell and started bleeding and thereafter, she died."

Akpan insists that he acted alone and that his dad and a certain Kufre Effiong, were not in on his serial rape acts.

Umoren has been buried today, May 14, 2021, in her hometown of Nung Ita in Oruk-Anam local government area of Akwa Ibom State.

Umoren's murder has shocked and outraged an entire nation, with the hashtag #JusticeForHinyUmoren trending on social media platforms since the day of the murder.

She was a graduate of Philosophy.