Man Stabs 2nd Wife To Death For Infecting Him With HIV Virus.

The Lagos State Police Command has arrested a man, Phillip Katongu, for allegedly stabbing his wife to death. Katongu, who hails from Wamba, Nasarawa State, was apprehended by operatives of the Department of Criminal Investigations, Yaba, Lagos.

Katongu, stiches of the self-inflicted injury | credits: Olaleye Aluko 

The police said the victim, Justina, was stabbed to death in a street at Oniru Estate, Maroko,Lagos, where she and her husband were living. 

Katongu, who worked as a construction worker on the Victoria Island, had a wife outside the marriage in Nasarawa State before marrying the deceased. 

45-year-old Katongu, told policemen that he killed his wife because she infected him with the Human Immunodeficiency Virus, among other misdeeds.

He said:

“I married Justina, my second wife in December 2010. I later learnt that she had given birth to two girls for a man. The girls died of AIDS. However, when we first met, she did not tell me all these.I explained to her that I have a wife with children and I wanted to marry her too.Before marriage,I told her we should go to hospital to conduct HIV test, but she refused and said that she was HIV negative.So we started sleeping together.”

Katongu added that without his knowledge, his wife had been going to Abuja for medical treatment every three months for HIV, until March 2013 when she took him along. He said it was at the hospital that she disclosed her HIV status to him.

He said:

“I was angry and told the doctor who equally blamed her for not disclosing it to me.The doctor then tested me,and I was positive.We came back to Lagos and continued with the relationship because I loved her.But suddenly, she told me she wanted to pack out from my house that she was no longer interested in marrying me having had another person in Abuja.In fact, the man usually called her on phone while we were together. 

I told her that with her status, she should not go and be infecting people with the virus and that I will kill her and kill myself. We started fighting and I stabbed her. It was in the early hours. I stabbed her three times with a knife. She shouted and people were knocking at our door.

However, after allegedly killing the wife, Katongu was said to have also attempted to commit suicide before the neighbours forced the door open and rushed him to a nearby hospital where he was revived...Punch

*What a pity!...what a wicked thing to do.....she knew she had it and was passing it around.she has already probably given it to the new lover in Abuja who will also pass it on.

What a pathetic story.I dont even know if the Law should sympathise with the man and set him free.

Lawyers please what do you call this crime?premeditated murder,manslaughter or mercy killing.