Angel Macleod who is currently grieving over the death of her mother in the hands of a policeman has called for the murder of the security operatives as an act of vengeance.
Angel Macleod and her late mother
The 14-year-old, tennis player, Angel Macleod, has demanded that the trigger-happy policeman who shot her mother, Beauty Macleod, dead should be ‘killed immediately’, saying he has taken away her joy.
Angel said she had been struggling to come out of shock since the news of her mother’s death was broken to her. Beauty, also a tennis player, was allegedly shot on Sunday, October 25, by one Corporal Joseph Aminu, who was attached to the Emperor’s Guest House on Balarabe Musa Crescent, Victoria Island, Lagos.
Beauty, who is from Anambra State, and Angel had lodged in the hotel in the afternoon of the fateful day on their arrival from Accra, Ghana, where the daughter had gone for a tournament.
It was learnt that the 37-year-old woman was going outside the hotel around 10pm to meet a friend, Betsy Garrett, who was waiting at the car park, when the security guard challenged her, claiming that she had been going out repeatedly.
Punch learnt that the guard called Aminu to intervene in the matter and it degenerated into an altercation between the policeman and the woman.
“I was told the security guard complained that my mum kept coming in and out and he got angry and then he called the policeman. The policeman slapped my mum and she had to retaliate with a stone. He eventually shot her in the leg and she started losing a lot of blood.
“I am just trying not to remember it (mother’s death). Any time I remember it, my spirit goes down. He (Aminu) does not deserve to be alive. He should be killed immediately. He has taken away my joy and everything I have in my life,” Angel said.
The case is currently under investigation with the policeman in question being taken into custody.