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‘I don’t know what pushes me to kill women’ – Port Harcourt serial killer confesses

At last, the notorious Port Harcourt serial killer of young women, Gracious David West, has been nabbed by the Rivers State Police Command. The arrest of the 39-year-old man followed an outcry by members of repeated killing of the victims in hotels in Rivers State.

West hails from Buguma, in Asar-Toru Local Government Area of Rivers. He was paraded yesterday (Friday) by state Commissioner of Police, Mustapha Dandaura, at the Police Command headquarters, Moscow Road, Port Harcourt.

It was gathered that the suspect was arrested last Thursday, by Police team on a routine stop and search operation along Ogoni axis of the East/West road enroute to Akwa Ibom State.

It would be recalled that recently, the suspect was sighted in a CCTV camera in one of the hotel receptions in Port Harcourt after allegedly killing a female victim.

(Credit: Sun Newspaper)

Ben Idah

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