A mother-of-three, Mrs Tayelolu Solomon, has reportedly sent her 65-year-old husband, Felix Solomon, to the great beyond using a pestle in Ondo State.
According to the state-owned newspaper, the incident occurred at GRA in Ondo town at the weekend. It was gathered that the couple had been having a lingering crisis and the woman had thr£at£ned to k#ll him.
The son of the deceased, Ibukun Solomon who witnessed the incident, said his mother k#lled his father in his sleep after a minor argument. “My mother k#lled my father with a pestle in my presence and took to her heels. She used the pestle to h#t his head when he was asleep,” he narrated.
“Earlier on the fateful day, a minor argument had ensued between them that resulted in a f#ght. After the f#ght, my father went to lie on the chair and my mother h#t his head with the pestle He became unconscious in the process and fell down from where he was sleeping. My mother used the pestle to h#t my father’s head three times and he later di£d. When my mother saw that my father was already unconscious, she hid the pestle at the back of our house and ran away
I alerted some of the residents, who rushed my father to the hospital. But he later did. His corpse has been deposited at the morgue. My mother had three children for my father and I’m the last child.”
It is reported that the deceased was on the floor of the house when the people of the community arrived at the scene. And they called the police for help. It was further gathered that the deceased had planned to report the woman to her family before she sent him to his gr@ve
A member of the deceased’s family said they were making efforts to settle the incessant #ght between the couple before tragedy struck. The source revealed that was not the first time such face- off would occur between the couple and the family would settle it amicably.
“The woman had been thr£@tening to k#lI her husband whenever they were f#ghting. And the deceased informed us about the thrEats. But we never knew she would carry out the act. But this time, she took laws into her own hands and k#led our brother for nothing. She must be arrested and prosecuted accordingly.”