The 19-year-old Ibadan serial killer, Sunday Shodipe, who was re-arrested by the Oyo State Police Command, said a herbalist detained with him at the police cell told him to escape from the cell to shed more blood to appease spirits tormenting the herbalist.

Shodipe made the confession, yesterday, during his parade alongside other 32 criminals by Oyo State Police Commissioner (CP), Mr. Joe Nwachukwu. He said:

“The herbalist with whom I was detained told me to escape from detention to provide blood to appease some spirits, who were sucking his (herbalist) blood since he could no longer get access to hard drinks and other ingredients like kolanuts and alligator pepper for sacrifice in the cell.”

Shodipe disclosed that he attacked another woman, Mrs. Oladeji Funmilayo, last Sunday after he escaped from the cell, confessing how he went back to Akinyele area to kill the woman. He said:

“After I escaped from Mokola Police cell in Ibadan, I went to do what Baba Adedokun asked me to do to save him from dying.

“I went from Moniya, where I used to live, to Akinyele where I used an object to hack the woman. Blood gushed out and I recited what Baba said I should recite, mentioning his name. I disappeared as usual but did not know whether the woman died.

“I don’t have any charm. I don’t know what Baba Adedokun was using me for. He said it was my initial confession that kept him in detention and that if I had not confessed and mentioned his name as the person using him, both of us would have been out.”

CP Nwachukwu who threw more light into Shodipe’s incident said:

“Shodipe confessed that he inflicted machete injury on the woman’s head and left her in the pool of her blood. The victim, who was brutally attacked by the notorious killer, was rushed to the University College Hospital, UCH, Ibadan, where she later gave up the ghost.”

The CP explained that he wouldn’t have detained the suspect at Mokola but did because the facilities at the correctional centre were already overcrowded.  But CP gave the assurance that Shodipe will be kept in the correctional centre, where he should have been kept initially.