The 28-year-old man, who was in coma five months after being allegedly brutalized by policemen, is dead.

Saheed Waliu, the 28-year-old, who was in a coma five months after being allegedly brutalised by some policemen, is dead.

Waliu was said to have given up the ghost at about 9am last Sunday at the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital, Ikeja, Lagos.

PUNCH Metro had on October 10, 2013, reported that Waliu was hospitalised at LASUTH, after suffering a brutal attack from yet-to-be identified policemen attached to the Highway patrol, along the LASU-Igando Road on May 8, 2013.

He was reportedly on his way home with a friend, Sherif Eleda, when the incident occurred. Waliu’s aged mother had told PUNCH Metro that the policemen had thrown an iron rod at Waliu, causing him to fall from his bike.

He was said to have suffered a cracked skull and a broken leg in the process.

No formal complaint was made at the nearest police station to the scene of the incident. Waliu’s family at the time, were said to be more preoccupied with how to save his life.

Despite the two surgeries performed on his head, Waliu reportedly never regained consciousness since the night of the attack.

His aged mother, Sadiat, had reportedly kept vigil through the five-month ordeal in the hope that Waliu would get better.

His sister, Taiwo, said, “We were outside the hospital ward as usual that Sunday when a nurse called to tell us that something was wrong. There was only one doctor available because of the strike. The doctor gave us some prescription to buy; she didn’t say what exactly had changed in Waliu’s condition. We left to buy the drugs. By the time we returned, they told us he was dead.” He was buried on Tuesday according to Muslim rites.

Already, a non-governmental organisation, Know Your Rights Initiative, have written a petition to the Inspector General of Police on the issue.

KYRI Legal Adviser, Mr. Omo Egbekuse, had said, “As soon as the matter came to our attention, we wrote a petition to the Inspector General of Police, the Lagos State Police Commissioner and the Assistant Inspector General of Police, Zone 2. We haven’t heard from them yet but expect that action would be taken in respect of this matter.”

The Force Police Public Relations Officer, CSP Frank Mba, when contacted, said, “We condole with the family and friends of the deceased, who is said to have died on Sunday. However, while the Force does not condone any act of irresponsibility from its officers, we are constrained at the moment because of insufficient facts.

“As it is, Waliu’s family cannot identify the policemen by names, the make of their car, registration number or the inscription of the vehicle. These are facts that make it easy to trace the offending officers, bring them to justice and quickly conclude the investigation.

“While it is understandable “that the deceased’s family might not have taken note of some of these facts on the night of the incident, at least someone should have noticed the name tag of the alleged police assailants.

“If the family of the deceased can make this information available to us, it would greatly help our investigation and ensure that those alleged to be responsible for Waliu’s death are brought to justice.”

 

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Suspected 'Vampire Cannibal' Rex Eric Allegedly Bites Daughter To Death, Drinks Blood

A chilling crime is grabbing international headlines this week after a local paper in Papua New Guinea reported a father allegedly bit his daughter to death and sucked her blood.

The Post-Courier's Franco Nebas first reported on the gruesome incident Friday.

According to the paper, Rex Eric was arrested by police after allegedly biting his 3-year-old daughter in the neck, eating her flesh and drinking her blood. The Oct. 9 incident, which reportedly occurred at a settlement in Lae, was observed by a pair of local boys who had climbed a nearby tree, the paper notes.

Local government official John Kenny told the Post-Courier that even after being caught, Eric "was just laughing at the boys and continued eating the flesh and sucking the blood."

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While the alleged events haven't been independently verified, similar incidents have been reported across the relatively unexplored country, which is home to a population of about 6,430,000, according to the CIA.

Last July, police in Papua New Guinea arrested 29 people accused of being a part of a cannibal cult that murdered and ate seven suspected witch doctors, according to the Associated Press.

That story, too, was first reported in local papers before being confirmed to the AP. The suspects had allegedly eaten the witch doctors' brains and made soup with their penises.

In a similarly brutal story from February, a young mother was burned alive in front of a mob of townspeople after she was accused of practicing witchcraft. According to multiple reports, Kepari Leniata, 20, was tortured and killed in the town of Mount Hagen, Papua New Guinea, by the relatives of a young boy believed to have been killed with magic.

The Agence France-Presse notes that there is a widespread belief in sorcery in Papua New Guinea, especially in rural and isolated areas. Although the practice was criminalized in 1971, there has been an increase in black magic-related incidents in recent years, the outlet notes.

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UK to send hundreds of Nigerian prisoners home

There are 534 Nigerian nationals serving sentences in British prisons. UK Minister Jeremy Wright says prisoner transfer deal is close to being sealed, reports Daily Mail

Hundreds of Nigerian criminals will be sent home to serve out prison sentences under a deal set to be struck by ministers within weeks.

Talks are continuing into reaching a compulsory prisoner transfer agreement, which could see more than half of the 500 criminals from Nigeria currently in UK jails repatriated.

Prisons minister Jeremy Wright told MailOnline how ‘more foreign prisoners must serve their sentences in their own countries’.

Ministers have been ordered to step up efforts to end the scandal of more than one in eight prisoners being from overseas.

The Prime Minister said in 2010 that he would ’personally intervene’ to send more foreign criminals home.

Britain has even made clear it would pay to build new prisons in countries like Nigeria to speed up the process of sending foreign criminals home. Up to £1million has been promised to upgrade Nigerian jails, including a new wing at Kirikiri Prison in Lagos.

But to date little progress has been made. When the coalition was formed there were 11,135 foreign prisoners in UK jails, and this figure has fallen by just three per cent since to 10,786.

Each felon costs an average of around £40,000 a year to keep inside.

Last week it was announced that notorious Liberian warlord Charles Taylor is to serve his 50-year sentence for war crimes in the UK.

A prisoner-transfer agreement was struck with Albania earlier this year to ‘free up space in prisons here and reduce the cost to the British taxpayer’.

It was the first major bilateral prisoner transfer agreement with a country outside the European Union.

There were around 250 Albanians in UK jails in June this year.

But securing an agreement with Nigeria would be seen as a much more significant breakthrough.

Latest figures show there were 534 Nigerian nationals in British jails, 485 men and 49 women.

Nigerians account for one in 20 of all foreign prisoners, putting the country fifth in the league table of nations whose citizens have been jailed in the UK.

Justice Minister Mr Wright said: ‘I am clear that more foreign prisoners must serve their sentences in their own countries.

‘That is why we are currently working with the Nigerian Government on a compulsory prisoner transfer agreement to increase the number of prisoners who are transferred.

‘Legislation allowing Nigeria to enter such an arrangement was passed earlier this year by the Nigerian Parliament. We are now working with them on the text of a final agreement.’

Overflowing jails abroad have made it increasingly difficult to deport prisoners to their own country.

It is argued that by paying for building new jails or making existing ones more ‘comfortable’ so they approach British standards, will be repatriated.

In April Mr Cameron said: ‘When people are sent to prison in the UK we should do everything we can to make sure that if they’re foreign nationals, they are sent back to their country to serve their sentence in a foreign prison.

‘And I’m taking action in Government to say look we have strong relationships with all of the countries where these people come from.

‘Many are coming from Jamaica, many from Nigeria, many from other countries in Asia.

‘We should be using all of the influence we have to sign prisoner transfer agreements with those countries. Even if necessary frankly helping them to build prisons in their own country so we can send the prisoners home.’

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Photos of Rihanna in South Africa

 

See photos of RiRi doing what she knows best in her Johannesburg concert which sold out the whole stadium. She made #histoRIH by being the youngest and first woman to sell out the stadium!!

 

She also got to bond with the animals....

 

 

Texas Mum Sentenced To 35 Years For Strangling Daughter Over Potty Training Issues

A judge in Fort Worth County, Texas sentenced Janice Renee Anthony (pictured) to 35 years in prison for killing her 3-year-old daughter, Paris Howard, because she kept urinating on herself during potty training, according to the Star-Telegram.

In September of last year, Anthony summoned police to her home, telling them that her little girl had taken a tumble down a flight of stairs and that she was unable to revive her.

But police investigators on the scene noticed bruising on several areas of the child’s body. After authorities questioned Anthony, they discovered she had struck the child various times during the course of potty training her. The state’s child protective services department also had a previous case against Anthony, who was 15 at the time she gave birth to Paris.

The then 19-year-old mom, who was also pregnant with another child at the time of her arrest, gave birth to a baby boy just days after she was charged with injury to a child with serious bodily injury. Anthony’s infant son was placed in foster care.

Toxicology reports revealed that Anthony had choked her daughter on the night that she died.

Anthony’s defense during the trial was that she had been the victim of abuse at the hands of a family member when she was a child. Her attorney, Richard A. Henderson, tried to make a case surrounding her childhood abuse, which he felt should have been taken into account before her sentencing.

“That gave us a little more insight because normally, people don’t do these type of things,” Henderson said. “She did not get much support from her family. I think it was the best outcome for everyone.”


Anthony will have to serve at least seventeen and a half years before she is even eligible for parole.

 

 

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