The late Arthur Angel
The Police Command in Edo has arrested a teenage boy, Arthur Angel Jr. for allegedly killing his 70-year-old father, Arthur Judah Angel for occasioned by misunderstanding over money.
The deceased father, who is an anti-death penalty advocate and human rights defender, was killed in Ugboha, in Esan South East Local Government Area of the state on Sunday, and buried in a shallow grave behind his house.
The Command’s spokesman, Chidi Nwabuzor, who confirmed the incident in a statement, said that preliminary investigation revealed that the deceased’s son had threatened to kill his father before hitting him with a sledgehammer.
“On the 15th of July, 2024, at about 09.00 hours, the Divisional Police Officer in charge of Ugboha division in Edo State received a complaint that one Arthur Angel Jr. (17 years) brought a complaint of a shallow grave discovery at the backyard of the compound where he lived with the deceased.
“Immediately, the DPO mobilized his men and they moved out to the scene. On getting there, they saw a shallow grave and decided to exhume the body
“When the body was exhumed, they discovered that it was the lifeless body of Arthur Angel, 70, and at a close look, they saw a sharp injury on the back of the deceased head, and the body was taken to Uromi Hospital mortuary,” Nwabuzor said.
The suspect’s father, who was sentenced to death in 1986 for a crime he said he did not commit, has been using his foundation, Life Wire International Foundation, to fight for the use of the death penalty in the country.
He had travelled to over 15 countries to speak out against the death penalty through his art exhibitions and drawings.
