Lagos state police command has arrested one Laenenae Halicani for allegedly beheading a four-year-old child who was earlier declared missing.
The mother of the child Talwar Shode, a resident of 7, Mangoro Street, Agege, had visited the Isokoko Division to report that her son was missing. Hours after visiting the police station, the child was found headless in a canal in the Ashade area of Agege.
Following investigations by the police, Halicani was arrested after he was rescued from a mob that almost lynched him, he reportedly confessed that he killed him.
A source told the reporters, “About three hours after the woman reported that her son was missing, heavily-armed youths were seen beating a man with bruises all over his body accused of being the prime suspect behind the missing child.
The police rescued the suspect. Hours later, the patrol team on surveillance recovered the decomposing, beheaded body of the missing child from a canal in the Ashade area”.
The suspect who was transferred to Area C, Ogba, was yesterday moved to the State Criminal Investigation Department (SCID), Yaba, for further investigation.
