The suspect escaped from custody at Ibara Police Divisional Headquarters in Abeokuta.
Mr and Mrs Fatinoye were murdered on 1 January after returning home from a midnight service usually organised by churches to welcome a new year.
The suspect was said to have been Mrs Fatinoye’s driver for almost two years and was well known within the community of the Federal University of Agriculture, FUNAAB, where the deceased woman worked. “He was quickly rushed to a police clinic at Zone II not far from the secretariat of the Nigerian Union of Journalists, Iwe-Iroyin, in order to ‘rescue’ him so as to help the police in its investigation,” the source saidThe source said the victim escaped into the Ogun Deputy Governor’s Lodge from where he scaled the fence to the house of the late Head of Interim Government, Ernest Shonekan.The source added that the officers tried frantically, including shooting into the air but all to no avail.
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