Deann Igho married Sylvester barely a year ago
and hoped to have a good marriage. Their
affairs had started when she was a student at
the University of Port Harcourt. Their love affair
blossomed, and they agreed to get married.
However, Deann's parents, siblings and
relatives objected to her marrying Sylvester.
Along the line, she got pregnant for Sylvester
and her family didn't have any choice but to
grant her wish. She moved in to live with
Sylvester. Last year, she gave birth to a baby
boy. Deann is Sylvester's third wife.
First, the man married about five years ago, and
the marriage crashed after producing a child.
He married again, but his second wife did not
give him a child before they parted ways. He
then married Deann.
The fight
Sylvester returned home after being away for
two weeks. A quarrel had ensued between him
and the wife in the evening. To Deann, the
matter was settled, but her husband did not
want to let go. At night, Sylvester woke his wife
from sleep and demanded that they talked. His
wife told him that whatever discussion there
was had to wait till the morning, to avoid waking
the baby, who had cough and catarrh. In a fit of
anger, Sylvester stabbed her twice in the eye,
locked the door and escaped.
Since their home on Ada George Road, a
developing part of Port Harcourt, is isolated,
neighbours could not hear Deann's cries.
Writhing in pains and on the verge of bleeding
to death, she managed to call her siblings in
Lagos, on phone. She also called her parents
and Sylvester's parents, who also live in Lagos.
She also, in pains, captured her bleeding face
with her Blackberry phone camera and sent
them to those she called.
Her family contacted their friends in Port
Harcourt, Mr & Mrs. Castro, who broke the
door and took her out. She was then taken to
the University of Port Harcourt Teaching
Hospital (UPTH) for medical attention.
Nero Igho, Deann's brother, who was in Lagos
when he got the distress call, says he called
Sylvester several times, but the latter refused to
pick his call.
After initial treatment, Nero took his sister to
police area command, where the matter was
reported. She was, thereafter, transferred to
Lagos State University Teaching Hospital,
Ikeja, where a team of three doctors confirmed
that the eye was dead, after surgery. On his
experience, Deann said: "Sylvester used a knife
to remove one of my eyes and locked the door
against me so that I will bleed to death."
How Sylvester was arrested
After the attack, Sylvester moved over to Lagos
and was lodging in a hotel. While in Lagos, he
told those who called him on phone that he was
in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State. The bubble burst
when someone spotted him and told Deann's
family. Nero traced him to the hotel and fooled
him into believing that there was no problem, as
they saw the matter as one of trying times. He
followed them home, where the police picked
him up. The police said he would be transferred
to Port Harcourt, where the crime was
committed.
Sylvester's plot to flee Nigeria
It was learnt that Sylvester actually planned to
flee Nigeria, which was why he came to Lagos.
He had made arrangements for an International
passport, which he was waiting for before he
was nabbed. While cooling off his heels at the
Lagos state Police Command cell, Sylvester
blamed Satan for his action. He denied stabbing
his wife. According to him, the ceiling fan cut his
wife's eye.
