Tragedy struck along the Tombia-Amassoma Road in Yenagoa, as a middle-aged man, identified as Mr. Patrick Markson allegedly committed suicide after killing his wife, in their residence located in the Bayelsa State capital.
According reports, the late Markson, who was a civil servant with the Yenagoa Local Government Area council, allegedly hit his wife’s head with a sledge hammer while she was deep asleep and watched her bleed to death.
The man reportedly aged 46 thereafter drank a poisonous substance suspected to be an insecticide and laid on the same bed close to where his dead wife was in their home at Odede Street, off Tombia -Amassoma road.
According to the elder sister of the wife, Mrs. Boufuru Timipre, her sister was a gentle lady that had no time for problems.
She explained that they had matrimonial issues but she has often spoken and settled both of them as husband and wife.
A compound chief and the head of Aputu family, Chief Anthony Jacob, said he was shocked when he got the news that Patrick and his wife were both dead in such circumstance.
The deceased left behind six children, of whom the eldest is a two hundred level student.
The Bayelsa State Police Command confirmed the incident as the remains of the couple had been deposited at the mortuary.
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