Pastor stabs wife to death over infidelity allegation

isaac dachen

September 8, 2017 9:30 AM

The police in Bayelsa State have arrested a self-styled pastor for allegedly stabbing his wife to death over infidelity.

The Bayelsa State Police Command has arrested a 40-year-old man,

Bayelsa Reporters have it that Akpata had murdered his 33-year-old wife after having sex with her on the night of Wednesday, September 6, 2017.

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The Delta State-born Akpata who is popularly called Bishop has already confessed to the police that after he made love to the deceased for an hour and shortly afterward, he saw a message on her phone and suspected her of infidelity.

He narrated that he became angry on seeing the message which was purportedly sent to her by a man and an argument ensued and he strangled Eze, a staff of Globacom in Yenogoa with the cords of a pressing iron before stabbing her several times in the neck and shoulder, leading to her death.

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Akpata also confessed that he had served various jail terms in Australia for different crimes before he was deported and that he became a born again Christian and was pastoring a church where he met the late Eze and they got married a few months ago at a court registry in Bayelsa State.

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