One Mr Benedict Haziel has killed another man identified as Lukas who was allegedly befriending his fiancee Blessing in Adamawa State.
Our sources said, Lukas bled to death after being stabbed by Haziel in the buttocks.
We learnt that Blessing became Benedict’s fiancee after he paid N15,000 as part of the dowry to bring them together as husband and wife.
Yet, Blessing, in her manner was allegedly implying a lack of commitment to the planned marriage, as she kept visiting Lukas, her boyfriend.
The suspect, Benedict, said, that he had on different occasions, warned Lukas to keep off from her fiancee Blessing, but that his supposed rival did not adhere to his threat.
Benedict explained, at weekend on a fateful day last month that was to be the end of Lukas, he went to his residence when he heard that his fiancee Blessing had gone there.
“On that fateful night, I trailed her to the residence of Lukas, to take her to her parents,” Benedict said.
He added that Lukas engaged him in a fight on his arrival at the residence and that rather unconsciously, he used a knife in his possession and stabbed him.
“It was not my intention to kill him,” Benedict explained.
