There was scuffle before Williams’ assassination – Witness

Posted by admin General Politics, Headlines Sunday, June 23rd, 2013

A retired deputy Inspector General of Police, Adebayo Adeoye, on Friday told a Lagos High Court, Igbosere, that the killers of a former Lagos governorship aspirant, Funsho Williams, had a scuffle with him before assassinating him.

Adeoye, a prosecution witness in the ongoing trial of six suspected killers of Williams told the court presided over by Justice Adeniyi Adebajo said that the scattered room of the deceased indicated scuffle before he was eventually assassinated.

Led in evidence by the prosecuting counsel, Mrs. O.A. Akin-Adesomojo, Adeoye said that he visited the scene of the crime with four other policemen, following a call from the then Inspector General of Police, Sunday Ehindero.

He told the court that they met a large crowd outside before a policeman on duty led his team to the room of the deceased where they found his corpse lying face down, hands tied and blindfolded with blood on the floor.

“We did not touch anything because we were expecting the forensics but we kept looking for the point of entry and moved to the adjacent flat which was empty.

“While searching the flat, all of a sudden we saw footprints on the wall and a green rope but we didn’t conclude that it was the point of entry because we were not sure yet.

“I ordered that the building be rounded up so that no one would gain entry. Then, Mr. Ovie Oyokomino, head of forensics met us there. We handed over to him and left the scene,” he said.

The witness said that he wrote his report on the incident and the four policemen on duty that night were arrested before the case was taken over by the force headquarters, Abuja.

Defense counsel, Agbara Okezie, while cross-examing the witness, asked if any of the four arrested policemen was among the six defendants in court, but Adeoye said he cannot remember their faces because they only spent two days in his custody.

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