Delta Stare Police Command has confirmed the arrest of the prime suspect in the gruesome murder of a retired judge.
The sommand’s spokesperson, SP Bright Edafe made this known in a statement yesterday in Asaba.
Edafe said the suspect was arrested on Saturday in his hideout in neighbouring Anambra State.
“On Saturday, December 6, operatives of the homicide section of the State CID, Delta State Police Command, acting on intelligence, arrested Godwin Mngumi, aged 25 in Anambra State.
“Mngumi is the security man who allegedly murdered Justice Ifeoma Okogwu (rtd) in her home in Asaba.
“During his arrest, the phone of the late retired judge was recovered from the suspect,” Edafe said.
He said the suspect confessed that he invited his friend that was also arrested and one other suspect at large over to the house where they carried out the dastardly act together.
Edafe said the manhunt for the third suspect is ongoing.
It would be recalled that the late jurist was murdered in her home in Asaba on the night of Thursday, November 27.
