Kelechi Kas
The Police Command in Rivers State has said suspected serial killer, David Gracious West, killed nine girls and not seven as he earlier confessed.
Mustapha Dandaura, the state commissioner of police said the above during a visit by the Kelechi Worgu-led ad-hoc committee set up by the Rivers State House of Assembly to monitor security agencies actions in tackling the serial killing of girls in hotels.
The police boss said that investigation is still ongoing into the killings.
The Buguma native during his confession at a briefing on Friday had said: “I will get these women from clubs, take them in, make love to them, collect their ATM cards, transfer their money into my account, seize their phones and other valuables then I will loud the TV set and strangulate the girls while they are asleep.”
“I don’t know what comes over me to kill. After I have killed, I feel remorse and cry for killing, but after that, the irresistible urge to kill comes over me again. I kill alone.”
“I was a member of the Degbam Cult group, I have since repented. I am not killing for any cult group. I just kill. I don’t know what comes over me to kill.”
“The first woman I killed in one of the hotels in Ikeja had about N85,000 in her account. Before I strangled them after lovemaking, I use the knife to cut the hotel bedding into a semblance of twine which I used to bind their hands and feet and also use the knife to threaten them.
“The kitchen knife was sold to me by an Aboki. I threaten that if they raised the alarm, I will kill them with the knife. Out fear, they kept quiet while I raised the volume of the television set in the hotel room to prevent any noise from my room. I never killed with the knife.”
He said he had killed seven women with five of the killings in Port Harcourt and one each in Owerri and Lagos.
But the CP while briefing the ad-hoc committee said: “This guy is a hardened criminal. He is a real serial killer. Initially, he agreed that he killed 5 in Port Harcourt, 1 in Lagos and 1 Owerri making it 7, that was in the first briefing when we paraded him.
“But upon investigations, we took him around all the hotels and the rooms where he killed the ladies and he confirmed the rooms and agreed that he killed all the 9 girls.”
Nworgu said hotels that fail to install CCTVs would be sanctioned.
