Nigeria: Murder of Student - Police Threaten Star Witnesses Over New Statement--Family

25 June 2017

The family members of the late Joy Odama, the 200-level mass communication student allegedly murdered in the house of one Alhaji Usman Adamu, have cried out over what they described as an alleged attempt to pervert justice by threatening the star witnesses in the murder investigation to write a new statement changing their earlier position on the matter.

The family made the allegation even as investigation into the cause of the death of the student of Cross Rivers State University took a new twist when two of the principal pathologists, who conducted a fresh autopsy into the cause of death, insisted that Joy did not die of cocaine poisoning but from carbon monoxide.

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