A twenty-year old arrested by the operatives of Rapid Response Squad (RRS) of Lagos State Police Command, for allegedly stealing a mobile phone, has said a festering sore in his right leg forced him into the criminal act.

The suspect, Sunday Vincent, was apprehended by Policemen after forcefully snatching a handset from his victim (name withheld) at Ojota Motor Park.

On his arrival at the RRS’s Headquarters, the arrested suspect confessed that he was forced to commit the crime because he was desperately looking for money to cure his three-year old sore in his right leg.

The arrested suspect told the investigator that his receiver, Samuel Ajekigbe, was his benefactor who accommodated him when he had no place to live.

Upon confessing this, the Policemen immediately picked-up the receiver at his residence, 38, Oyinbo Orunmila, Unity Estate in Ojodu.

In his words, Ajekigbe, noted that the suspect only told him he saw the phones on the ground on his way home.

Lagos State Police Public Relations Officer, Superintendent of Police, Dolapo Badmus, noted that the two suspects would be prosecuted accordingly.

The two suspects have been transferred to Lagos State Task Force on Environment for prosecution.