A young man who had been in detention for murder has caused worry among residents and apprehension after he suddenly disappeared from captivity.
The 15-year-old murder suspect who was simply identified as Gift Edosomwan, disappeared from where he was being detained in Edo State.
The Punch reports that Edosomwan, who was arrested for allegedly killing a mother and her three-year-old daughter is nowhere to be found.
The suspect, it was learnt, reportedly escaped last Saturday morning from the welfare home at Upper Sakponba.
The 15-year-old suspect and others at large were alleged to have gruesomely murdered the 28-year-old victim, Itohan Enagbare, and her daughter, Iwinosa, at about 1pm on December 9, 2015.
Counsel to the Enagbare family, Jefferson Uwoghiren, who raised the alarm, described the disappearance of the killer teenager as worrisome.
He also called on law enforcement agencies to re-arrest the teenager and those responsible for his alleged escape.
The State Police Public Relations Officer, Mr. Osifo Abiodun, said that he had yet to receive any report on the incident.
Abiodun said, “Although I am not aware of that incident, it is not from the police custody that he escaped, if at all there is anything like that.
“If there is any escape from custody, either prison or not, and the matter is reported to the police, of course, it is the duty of the police to go after the suspect. I am not aware now.”