'I Cut Her Neck With Cutlass For Sacking Me' - Houseboy Who Killed Magistrate Says

David Idah, the houseboy of  retired Chief Magistrate Funmilola Timeyin who killed her at her residence in Laderin Estate in Abeokuta on March 28th says he killed her because she sacked him. 

Idah, in an interview with Punch, said he and his boss had a good relationship when he started working with her but they fell out when she started to complain about his attitude. Idah says he wasn't paid his salary and so stole two mobile phones, a DVD player, speakers, perfume, wrist watches, three trousers and four shirts belonging to her son in order to sell them, get money and leave.

She discovered he had stolen these items and invited the police who came in and was about to begin prosecution of the 21 year old Benue indigine when she (Justice Timeyin) pleaded with them to let him off the hook and even wrote a letter of withdrawal to the police. She said she did not want Idah tried but she sacked him and told him not return to work for her again. Continue...

Boy Impaled Through Neck By 2 feet Iron Bar & Lives

A 10-year-old boy has survived after being impaled by an iron bar that entered his left side and came out close to his right ear. Weverton Silva fell from a tree and landed on the 2ft (60cm) metal spike.

Doctor Rodrigo Chicralla told Brazil's Globo TV that it was a miracle that the youngster lived. The bar that pierced him during last week's accident in Rio de Janeiro state barely missed an artery and his heart.

The boy was on a branch of a guava tree when it broke. He fell on to a wall below from which the bar was jutting.