The operatives of the Ekiti State Police Command have arrested a man for allegedly stabbing his wife to death over alleged infidelity in Ado-Ekiti, the state capital.

The command’s spokesperson, DSP Sunday Abutu, confirmed the arrest of the man on Sunday, April 28, 2024.

Abutu disclosed that the man allegedly stabbed his wife to death on Saturday, April 27.

A neighbour told newsmen that the man, a law-enforcement agent, and his wife, who worked at a chemist shop, locked themselves up in their bedroom before the stabbing incident.

They had earlier sent their elder child on a decoy errand, leaving their five-year-old child in their room where they stabbed themselves after hot exchanges over the infidelity charge, the neighbour, who craved anonymity, said.

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She said: “The man had earlier accused the deceased of infidelity and neighbours who went to settle the quarrel could not get access to the room as it was firmly locked.

“Some of the peace-makers had to break through the ceiling in the house to gain access into the room only to find the deceased and the man badly injured.

“The woman looked unconscious and was rushed out of the house but she gave up the ghost before getting to the hospital.”

She added that it was at this stage that the matter was reported to the police and the man was taken to a hospital for treatment under police watch.

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