Police Detains Nigerian Lady Over The Death Of Her South African Lover

Men of Nigerian police, Lagos command said it had detained a lady identified as Gift Mike in connection with the death of her lover, Daniel Grant, a South African national.

Grant, 50, was allegedly found dead in the early hours of Sunday at the Emerald Cove Hotel on Sinari Daranijo Street, Victoria Island, where he slept with her.

It was gathered that the deceased was discovered hanged in the restroom of the centre with his legs on the ground.

According to the incident, the police commissioner said the position of the deceased and other evidence clues at the scene suggested that he was murdered.

He said the case had been moved from the Maroko Police Division, where it had been initially reported, to the State Criminal Investigation and Intelligence Department, Yaba, for additional investigations.

The CP stated, "The complainant, one Abu Ismail, the director of this Emerald Cove Hotel, reported that one of their guests was found dead in his hotel room.

“He stated that on Saturday, May 5, the deceased, a South African national, and his girlfriend, Gift Mike, checked into the hotel. On the same day, the two lovebirds left the hotel to Pat Bar, Victoria Island, on a drinking spree and returned to the hotel around 1.30pm before they retired to bed.

“Around 1.30am, the girlfriend, Gift Mike, woke up and found the deceased missing on the bed. She later found him in the toilet hanged in a vertical position and raised the alarm, which attracted the attention of the deceased’s friend, Piyush Srivatsatav, an Indian national, and some staff members of the hotel.

“The investigation team, led by the Deputy Commissioner of Police, SCIID, Yaba, and forensic experts from the Lagos State Ministry of Justice, visited the scene of crime and took samples for scientific analysis. The girlfriend has been arrested.”

The corpse was said to have been deposited in the Lagos Island General Hospital’s morgue for autopsy.

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