Ibadan suspected serial killer escapes from custody

The 19-year-old suspected serial killer in Ibadan arrested by operatives of the Oyo State Police Command, Sunday Shodipe, has escaped from custody.

This was contained in a telegraph message by the spokesman of the Command, Olugbenga Fadeyi, sighted on Sunday.

Fadeyi said Shodipe escaped from custody on August 11.

He was arrested and paraded alongside two others at the headquarters of the Oyo State Police Command in Eleyele, Ibadan on July 17.

He was allegedly responsible for the series of killings in Akinyele Local Government Area of the state.

Fadeyi said in the telegraph: “The Commissioner of Police, Oyo State Command, Nwachukwu Enwonwu, wishes to state that the prime suspect in the serial killings at Akinyele Local Government Area, Moniya, Ibadan, Sunday Shodipe, 19 years, who was arrested and paraded along with two others at the Oyo State Police Command on July 17 and later charged to court but remanded in Police custody escaped from lawful custody on August 11.

“Consequent upon this, the CP wishes to implore the general public to be on the lookout, arrest and immediately inform the officers and men of the Command when sighted for immediate handing over for further action.”