Vigilantes beat man to death in Sophia

A mob early yesterday morning battered and chopped an alleged thief to death in Sophia, before tying his lifeless body to a lamp post and covering it with pieces of wood with the apparent intention of burning it.

Dead is 40-year-old Nigel Lowe also known as Nigel Fordyce of Block ‘A’, Joe Singh Entrance, Sophia.

Police in a press release said that investigations are being conducted into the circumstances surrounding the death of the man “whose nude body was found tied to a utility pole