VANGUARD
Fresh facts emerged over reasons why the grandmother, identified as lforiti Oloro, set her son’s entire family members ablaze over an allegation of starvation, in Apomu community, Akure, the Ondo State capital.
A police source told Vanguard that the suspect who regretted her action claimed that she actually wanted to kill her daughter-in-law, Racheal, not her son, Victor Oloro and grandchildren, Toluwani and Blessing.
She reportedly claimed that she had an axe to grind with the daughter-in-law who was actually the one who starved her of food in the house.
According to a police source, the suspect, during interrogation, regretted killing her son alongside the wife. She said that she overreacted to the ill-treatment she received from her daughter-in-law.
” She expressed regret that her son also died in the inferno and that if she knew this will happen, she would have found a way to ensure that her son did not sleep in the same room with the wife that ill-fated day.
“She regretted not separating the son before setting the rest of the family ablaze. The police source said.
Meanwhile, the police spokesperson, Funmi Odunlami, said that the two grandchildren didn’t die in the inferno…
