The family of Miss Chinyere Awuda, who was allegedly beaten to death in a club house in a hotel in Awka, capital of Anambra State, has rejected the autopsy report released by police authorities in the state.
Awuda was reportedly beaten to death by angry clubbers, who accused her of picking money sprayed on their friend, who was celebrating his birthday.
DSP Tochukwu Ikenga, spokesman of the Anambra State Police Command, had in a statement on Friday stated that pathologists confirmed that Awuda was not beaten to death but died of drowning.
However, her family’s lawyer, Eziafa Charisma, told newsmen that the report was suspicious, adding that the last had not been heard about the matter.
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Charisma said: “Yes, I was there during the autopsy and I thank the pathologists that carried out the job. I challenge the police to release the comprehensive and well detailed report of that autopsy.
“There are other things because, in the course of the autopsy, the pathologists showed that there were some injuries on her rib and some blood stains on her limb.
“The question to the police is; the report that Chinyere drowned, will that solve the case of murder, a case of that magnitude? Can an unconscious person drown and what led to her drowning?”
The counsel observed that the police seemed not interested in the matter initially but tried to convince the family on settlement, which was not part of their job.
“Chinyere was in the club. There are evidences that she was beaten; there are evidences that there was unrest in the club; there are evidences that some people pursued her when she ran out of the club,” the counsel said.
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“There are evidences that two persons were in her pursuit, and there were evidences that she was trying to hide, and there were evidences that two persons pursued her to where she went to hide, and later there were evidences that the two persons came out from where Chinyere was hiding without Chinyere.
“In fact, I challenge the police and the management of the hotel to make public the CCTV footage of what happened at the hotel and people should be able to see what happened ”
He urged the police to do the proper thing irrespective of Ewuda’s death.
According to him, the Ewuda family, obviously dissatisfied by the police report, is planning to petition the Inspector General of Police over the matter.
