Gardaí hold Nigerian over sacrificial murder of boy

GARDAÍ in Dublin were last night questioning a 37-year-old Nigerian man who is wanted by both British and German police and who is a prime suspect in the sacrificial murder of a boy whose mutilated torso was found in the Thames River in London.

Sam Onogigovie, who lived in Tallaght with his partner and a number of children, will appear in the High Court this afternoon for extradition proceedings.

Yesterday, Scotland Yard police and Irish detectives spent four hours searching the man’s Dublin home for clues to the ritualistic murder of the boy in Britain two years ago which led to appeals from Nelson Mandela.