An 18-year-old commercial sex worker, Oluwatosin Ami has been killed after being gang raped by two suspects namely, John-Paul Chukwuebuka, 19; and Ebuka Chimudi, 22;
The duo belonged to a gang which specialised in luring young ladies to hotels with the aim of dispossessing them of their belongings and raping them.
Police authorities, who confirmed the incident which occurred on April 10, 2013,said two members of the gang posed as customers and visited the Happy Day Hotel, Orile.
Oluwatosin was approached by the suspects and she took them into her room at the hotel which she secured at the cost of N3, 500 per day.The suspects were said to have overpowered Oluwatosin and stuffed a cloth in her mouth to prevent her from screaming.
She was also bound by the hands, while the suspects took turns in raping her.Afterwards, the suspects were said to have stolen her phone and money before locking her inside the room.The suspects were also said to have taken the key of the room and tossed it into a canal.
A relative of the deceased said the following morning, when the hotel attendants wanted to clean the hotel rooms, they knocked on the door of the room where Oluwatosin was, but there was no response.
It was learnt that the attendants then used a spare key to open the door and the corpse of Oluwatosin was found.Her father, Babatunde, told our correspondent that the matter was reported at the Orile Police Station and his daughter’s corpse was taken to the Mainland Hospital, Yaba.
Babatunde said he had no idea that his daughter was a commercial sex worker.He said the family had been looking for her since December last year and had reported her missing at the Adeniji Adele Police Division on the Lagos Island.