By Kamsi Anayo and John Ugo
Lawyer to the family of the late Miss Chinyere Awuda, who was allegedly beaten to death in a club house in Cosmila Hotel, Awka has faulted autopsy report released by police authorities in Anambra State.
Spokesperson of Anambra State Police Command, DSP Tochukwu Ikenga had stated in a press release on Friday that pathologists have confirmed that Awuda died of drowning, and not beaten to death as was alleged.
But counsel to the family, Barr Ezieafa Charisma who spoke to journalists said the report is suspicious saying that the claim that Chinyere Awuda died of drowning is suspicious.
“Yes I was there during the autopsy and I thank the pathologists that carried out the job but then, I challenge the police to release the comprehensive and well detailed report of that autopsy.
“There are other things because in the course of the autopsy the pathologists showed that there some injury on her rib and some blood stains on her limb.
“The question to the police is; the report that Chinyere drowned, will that solve the case of murder, a case of that magnitude? Can an unconscious person drawn and what led to her drowning?”
Charisma said from the unset, police have been reluctant in the matter. He said personnel of the B Division police station, started talking to the family about settlement from the onset.
He wondered why the police would be the one to talk about settlement.
“Chinyere was in the club and there are evidences that she was beaten, there are evidences that there was an unrest in the club, there are evidences that some people pursued her when she ran out of the club.
“There are evidences that two persons were in her pursuit, and there were evidences that she was trying to hide, and there were evidences that two persons pursued her to where she went to hide, and later there were evidences that the two persons came out from where Chinyere was hiding without Chinyere.
“Infact I charge the police and the management of the hotel to make Public the CCTV footage of what happened at the hotel and people should be made to see what happened” he said.
Charisma insisted that even though Chinyere Awuda was dead, the matter would continue until police did what was right.
He stated that the family is putting up a petition to the Inspector General of Police over the police report and how the investigation was carried out by the Police Command.
