By Jesutomi Akomolafe
Thirty 36 days search for the missing mother of two, Mercy Henry, finally came to an end on Friday after body of the 35-year-old mother was found, mutilated and buried in different sacks behind a building said to be belonging to the prime suspect, Mr. Mayowa Timothy.
Recall that Ikejabird had reported how late Mercy Henry was declared missing by her father, Pa Henry Ekeinabor on December 16 after she visited her friend, Mayowa in Ijegun, Lagos.
According to her father, Pa Ekienabor, a 70-year-old man who raised the alarm, he believed his daughter was alive and in captivity as he expressed apprehension of Mercy’s safety.
The news of her demise reached Pa Henry on Friday after the police exhume her remains at the building following Mayowa’s friends confession.
In tears, the deceased’s grieving father, Pa Henry said: “It’s rather unfortunate that my daughter was killed, mutilated and buried at the back of Mayowa’s house. She was killed on the same December 16th, 2021 that she left home.
Police called my son on January 14th, 2022, to tell us the development. I was hoping and praying that maybe they had been able to track and locate where her captors kept her.”
“The Police told us that she was murdered in cold blood, mutilated and then buried. After mutilating her corpse, she was then packed into five sacks and buried at the back of Mayowa’s house.
Reacting to the issue on Instagram with the handle @SaraleeDickson, ” she said: ” guys the search for Mercy is over and it’s sad! She was murdered in cold blood and her body was mutilated and then buried. Her body as park in a 5 sack of bag and then buried at one Mr. Mayowa’s backyard,” she said.
She had earlier announced in December 18 on her tweeter page the disappearance of Mercy.
Mercy had told her relatives she was going to Ijegun, but didn’t mention the name of the person she was going to see.
Her siblings called her friends, asking of her whereabout the day she was missing before one of her friends residing at Port Harcourt, named Ayo, said she spoke with Mercy at noon time.
She said Mercy had called to demand a loan of N30, 000, which she needed for treatment at a trado-medical home, and that she was short of blood and was getting leaner.
Ayo told Mercy’s that she paid the money into a First Bank account bearing the name, ‘Mayowa Timothy Bamidele,’ given to her by Mercy which was sent at 1:59pm and at 2:02pm, Mercy’s phone number stopped going through.
Meanwhile, Mayowa with three of his friends are in Police custody at the State CID.
