Suspect accused of murder managed to escape from British cops to Nigeria on his brother’s passport.
According to British law enforcement officers, the 24-year-old suspect, Jeffrey Okafor, was likely to have escaped justice in the UK by using his brother’s passport.
It was reported that Okafor stabbed Beatson-Asiedu to death outside a nightclub in 2009.
Though the Nigerian suspect denies the charges, police, however, tracked his phone calls to nail him.
Carl Beatson-Asiedu was murdered in 2009 Picture: Met Police
“After the attack, Jeffrey Okafor actually confessed to a girlfriend that he had stabbed Carl Beatson,” prosecutor Sarah Whitehouse told press.
Okafor escaped arrest when police went to his house and managed to fly to Lagos a few days later by using his brother’s passport.
The suspect was said to have been tracked down later by Nigerian police at the request of their British counterparts.
Despite the fugitive’s frequent change of identity and locations, the operatives were still able to keep a tab on him without raising any suspicion.
After all the necessary required procedures to enable the handover of the fugitive to the UK authorities had been concluded, Okafor was extradited from Nigeria in November 2014.
