Prostitute found dead in Onitsha brothel; neighbour suspects she committed suicide

A commercial prostitute identified as Chisom was found dead in a brothel along the old market road in Onitsha, Anambra state.

According to a neighbor, he suspects the young lady committed suicide because her boyfriend reportedly left her to marry another woman.

After the death of Chisom, other occupants of the brothel and neighbors, mostly prostitutes, fled the brothel. There have been several connotations to the death of Chisom.

According to neighbors, the prostitute might have died by hanging herself in her hotel room, while others also claimed said she might have been strangled by an aggrieved client over a financial disagreement.

One of the neighbors, who spoke in an interview with The Nation, alleged that the deceased ended her own life after discovering that her boyfriend had married another woman.

“She had a boyfriend that always spent a lot of money on her. Even this last Christmas the boy came to her with a bag of rice with #200,000, among other items and asked her to travel for Christmas and come back later,”

“As soon as she came back, she was told that her boyfriend had married. Since then she started behaving abnormally and just three days ago, she was seen holding a rope in her hand,”

“When asked why she was holding the rope she became aggressive and early in the morning, she swept her room and around 9 am what we heard was that she has committed suicide in her room,”

“We saw her neck tied with a rope to the window in her room but the legs were touching the floor. So we don’t know if it was suicide as no foam was gushing out from her mouth but the tongue was out.”

Meanwhile, State Police Command, DSP Tochukwu Ikenga, has disclosed that there was no suicide note.

“No suicide note was found in the room to suspect suicide. We’re exploring all options to unravel the circumstances surrounding the death,” he said.