Policeman's Children, beat Pregnant Woman to Coma, Attack Husband

Medical doctors in an undisclosed private hospital at Idimu area of Lagos are currently battling to save the life of a pregnant woman, Mrs. Gloria James who was allegedly beaten to a state of coma by children of a Mobile Policeman attached to MOPOL 20, Inspector Richard Ekpo.

Unfortunately, for the woman, efforts by doctors to save her two months pregnancy failed.

Mrs. Gloria Oluwatomiwa James was allegedly attacked by one of the policeman's son identified simply as Olorunda in front of her shop at Idimu Mammy market during a verbal confrontation.

Trouble, as gathered, started when she demanded for an apology from Olorunda whom she said stepped on her while he was going to smoke Indian hemp from a local dealer around her shop.

Rather than apologise, Olorunda, as gathered, reportedly was not any remorseful but confronted her. He allegedly pounced on the pregnant woman for daring to ask him to apologise and gave her a thorough beating. Consequently she was rushed to a nearby hospital for treatment.

According to her, "Last Friday, I was sitting in front of my boutique because there was no light, when a young man came to buy Indian hemp from one of the local dealers around. As he was trying to sneak in to avoid being seen, he stepped on my feet. As I bent to move his leg, he asked why I was touching him rather than apologise.”

Even when I showed him the sand from the sole of his slippers that was still on my feet, he still insisted that he didn't step on me. An argument ensued during which he threatened to deal ruthlessly with me if I opened my mouth to talk again. Before I could respond, he slapped and started hitting me.

"Other shop owners who came to rescue me from his grips withdrew immediately they discovered he was the one. This is because everyone is afraid of him in that area. That was how he continued to hit me, even when I ran inside my shop. It took the intervention of a policeman in uniform to rescue me from him."

When her husband went to report the ugly development to

Husband requests son's custody in court, ask wife to leave house

THE case between estranged couple, Mr Fatai Ajiboye and Mrs Beverly Ajiboye, came up on Wednesday at the Abule Egba Magistrate's Court, with parties ordered to meet with the Welfare Office over the custody of the lone child between them.

Both parties failed to reach a compromise on issues relating to child custody, compensations and damages, with the magistrate, T. A. Elias, directing them to the Welfare Office for further discussion.

It was gathered that the plaintiff, Mr Fatai Ajiboye, through his lawyer, Mr Murtala Lawal, denied all allegations of torture and maltreatment that his wife leveled against him.

He also reportedly requested the court to grant him custody of the only issue produced by the union  a boy of less than four years of age. He was also said to have requested that his wife, Mrs Beverly Ajiboye, vacate their house in Ayobo area of Lagos State, where she currently resides.

Those were the conditions Mr Ajiboye had reportedly tabled before the magistrate, as a response to the demands made by Mrs Beverly Ajiboye, who had asked that he (Mr Ajiboye) should be made to be responsible for all the medical expenses incurred in the process of treating herself as a result of her ordeal.

Mrs Ajiboye had also requested that she be paid damages for the trauma she had been made to go through in the hands of her husband.