good marriage. Their affairs had started when she was a student at the
University of Port Harcourt. Their love affair blossomed, and they
agreed to get married.
However, Deann's parents, siblings and relatives objected to her
marrying Sylvester. Along the line, she got pregnant for Sylvester and
her family didn't have any choice but to grant her wish. She moved in
to live with Sylvester. Last year, she gave birth to a baby boy. Deann
is Sylvester's third wife.
First, the man married about five years ago, and the marriage crashed
after producing a child. He married again, but his second wife did not
give him a child before they parted ways. He then married Deann.
Deann Igho (L) Immediately After She Was Allegedly Stabbed By Her
Husband & In Hospital (R) After Treatment
The fight
Sylvester returned home after being away for two weeks. A quarrel had
ensued between him and the wife in the evening. To Deann, the matter
was settled, but her husband did not want to let go. At night,
Sylvester woke his wife from sleep and demanded that they talked. His
wife told him that whatever discussion there was had to wait till the
morning, to avoid waking the baby, who had cough and catarrh. In a fit
of anger, Sylvester stabbed her twice in the eye, locked the door and
escaped.
Since their home on Ada George Road, a developing part of Port
Harcourt, is isolated, neighbours could not hear Deann's cries.
Writhing in pains and on the verge of bleeding to death, she managed
to call her siblings in Lagos, on phone. She also called her parents
and Sylvester's parents, who also live in Lagos. She also, in pains,
captured her bleeding face with her Blackberry phone camera and sent
them to those she called.
Her family contacted their friends in Port Harcourt, Mr & Mrs. Castro,
who broke the door and took her out. She was then taken to the
University of Port Harcourt Teaching Hospital (UPTH) for medical
attention.
Nero Igho, Deann's brother, who was in Lagos when he got the distress
call, says he called Sylvester several times, but the latter refused
to pick his call.
After initial treatment, Nero took his sister to police area command,
where the matter was reported. She was, thereafter, transferred to
Lagos State University Teaching Hospital, Ikeja, where a team of three
doctors confirmed that the eye was dead, after surgery. On his
experience, Deann said: "Sylvester used a knife to remove one of my
eyes and locked the door against me so that I will bleed to death."
How Sylvester was arrested
After the attack, Sylvester moved over to Lagos and was lodging in a
hotel. While in Lagos, he told those who called him on phone that he
was in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State. The bubble burst when someone spotted
him and told Deann's family. Nero traced him to the hotel and fooled
him into believing that there was no problem, as they saw the matter
as one of trying times. He followed them home, where the police picked
him up. The police said he would be transferred to Port Harcourt,
where the crime was committed.
Sylvester's plot to flee Nigeria
It was learnt that Sylvester actually planned to flee Nigeria, which
was why he came to Lagos. He had made arrangements for an
International passport, which he was waiting for before he was nabbed.
While cooling off his heels at the Lagos state Police Command cell,
Sylvester blamed Satan for his action. He denied stabbing his wife.
According to him, the ceiling fan cut his wife's eye.