Imo Jailbreak: How Villagers Burnt Escaped Prisoner Who Returned Home

The angry residents of Umuawom village, Ihodimeze community in Ikeduru council area of Imo state On Wednesday, has burnt to death a fleeing prisoner, who escaped from the Owerri correctional centre, that was attacked on Monday by the hoodlums.

According to the Nation, the unidentified fleeing intimate was said to have hailed from the nearby Ogwa community in Mbaitoli Local Government Area of Imo State but grew up in Umuawom village, which is his maternal home.

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The intimate was said to have involved in a kidnapping that involved one of the Families in Umuawon Village but was eventually apprehended and remanded in police custody for over one year.

However, the prisoner having himself escaped from the correctional centre, on Monday, was said to have gone to the house of one of the Families that testified against him, threatening to deal with them.

It was gathered the intimate attempted to carry out his threat by attacking a member of the family in Umuawom village with a gun.,

Village source that spoke with The Nation stated that it was the action of the escaped prisoner, prompted the people of the community to pounce on him and set him ablaze.

A spokesman for the Police Command, Orlando Ikeokwu, said he had heard about the incident but could not officially confirm it.