{"id":118348,"date":"2024-05-08T16:49:28","date_gmt":"2024-05-08T15:49:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/tears-in-court-as-dss-plays-murder-suspects-alleged-video-confessions"},"modified":"2024-05-08T18:57:39","modified_gmt":"2024-05-08T17:57:39","slug":"tears-in-court-as-dss-plays-murder-suspects-alleged-video-confessions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/tears-in-court-as-dss-plays-murder-suspects-alleged-video-confessions","title":{"rendered":"Tears in court as DSS plays murder suspect\u2019s alleged video confessions"},"content":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>There were tears in an Abia State High Court in Umuahia on Wednesday as a video of confessions allegedly made by a murder suspect, Salem Chukwunyere, was played inside the courtroom by personnel of the Department of State Security, DSS.<\/p>\n

In the video, the suspect, Chukwunyere, who identified himself as a plumber, confessed to killing a woman, Nkem Ndife by using a bathroom sponge to strangle her inside her house in Umuahia, saying that he had come to solicit financial assistance from the woman on the day he killed her.<\/p>\n

The suspect, in the video, said that he met the victim alone in her house before committing the crime.<\/p>\n

Chukwunyere also confessed that he murdered another victim, one Chioma Nwoke, in Obinze, Imo State.<\/p>\n

A DSS official had told the court that the alleged confession was voluntarily made by the suspect after his arrest, pointing out that it was not made under duress.<\/p>\n

But the counsel to the defendant, Adimchinaka Udochukwu Ngumoha, argued that the confession made by the defendant in the video should not be adopted or admitted as evidence..<\/p>\n

According to him, the video did not have authentication and certification documents to make them admissible.<\/p>\n

The presiding judge, Justice Uche Enwereji, advised the counsel to the defendant to raise his objection during the presentation of his written address.<\/p>\n

She adjourned the case to July 3, 2024 for continuation of hearing.<\/p>\n

Speaking to Journalists after the case, the husband to late Nkem Ndife, Mr Christian Ndife, demanded justice for his wife.<\/p>\n

He said his 48 -year-old wife was murdered in a most horrible manner at Agulu Street Umuahia on September 21, 2021.<\/p>\n

Ndife, who broke down in tears, said, \u201cI need justice, my wife\u2019s life matters. Women\u2019s lives matters. My wife should get justice, women should get justice.\u201d<\/p>\n

Also speaking, Mrs Clementina Nwoke, whose daughter, Chioma Nwoke, was allegedly killed by the same defendant, demanded justice for the victims.<\/p>\n

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Africa-Press – Nigeria. There were tears in an Abia State High Court in Umuahia on Wednesday as a video of confessions allegedly made by a murder suspect, Salem Chukwunyere, was played inside the courtroom by personnel of the Department of State Security, DSS. 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