A police officer, Inspector Samuel Udoh, who was the 6th Prosecution Witness in the trial of Uduak-Abasi Akpan, alongside his father and elder sister, over the killing of Iniubong Umoren, a job seeker told the Akwa Ibom State High Court sitting in Uyo, that the first accused person, Uduak-Abasi Akpan, finally confessed to raping and killing the victim.
Udoh who is attached to the Anti-Kidnapping Squad, Police Headquarters, Ikot Akpan Abia, in his evidence told the court that Uduak-Abasi Akpan willingly took the police investigation team to his father’s compound in Uruan LGA and showed them the shallow grave he buried the remains of late Umoren.
The inspector told the court that when the first accused person’s lawyer, Emmanuel Ekiko, appeared at the Ikot Akpan Abia Police headquarters, he and the first accused person’s father, Frank Akpan, both witnessed him make a voluntary confessional statement.
He said the Akpan confessed to advertising a non existing job, which attracted the deceased, Iniubong Umoren. He also confessed to have directed Umoren to the storey building on arrival of the deceased in his father’s compound in Uruan.
Udoh further said to the court that the first accused person confessed to raping the victim with the use of condom but during his second attempt to rape without condom, Umoren begin to struggle.
