The Osun State Police Command, on Monday confirmed the arrest of one Joseph Mark, a 25-year-old undergraduate of the Adekunle Ajasin University, Ondo, who beheaded his mother on Sunday.
The Public Relations Officer of the command, DSP Folashade Odoro, told newsmen in Osogbo that the incident happened at about 6:30 am, at No 25, Zone 5, Ajetomobi Street, Eko-Ende Road, Ikirun, Osun.
According to Odoro, the father of the suspect, Mr Adewale Mark, reported the incident to Ikirun Divisional Police station.
She said the father explained that he left his house around 5:30 a.m. to visit his friend at the next street and on returning home at about 6 a.m., he discovered that his son had cut off his wife’s head with a cutlass.
Odoro said the culprit, who was suspected to be insane, was arrested when the team of police detectives visited the scene of the crime.
She said exhibits including medical examination of the suspect, weapon used and photographs of the scene and victim were taken by the police.
She added that the corpse of the victim, Mrs Christianah Mark, 62, had been deposited at mortuary and that further investigation on the matter had begun. (NAN)
Homicide in the first degree, with the perpetrator having a supposed ‘psychiatric’ illness. Whatever this may mean requires a specialist review, to investigate, interview and interrogate the perpetrator’s mental state prior to, during and post-commission of such crime, any history of aggression, violence of threat. This cannot be precluded as a ‘money-ritual’ killing. The antecedents and inter-personal interactions of the offender should be explored to know whether such ideas were fed into him. Yes, a psychotic individual can turn psychopathic if prescribed interventions such as drugs regimen were not complied with. There’s so much complexity in this matter to be unravelled because, it is quite uncommon for a psychiatric patient to murder his mother – the closest to him cognitively.