Legal Dilemmas

By Nwokocha Chidinma Grace, Lagos, Nigeria.   "I did it!” He blurted out without remorse. "You did whaat?" Inspector Olopaa asked, praying that he did not just hear this man say he committed the sacrilege. "I killed my wife", Kenny replied, still unrepentant. For what seemed like hours, Inspector Olopaa was speechless. He sat gazing at this man like one who had just seen a ghost. In his entire 30 years as a Police officer, this was the first time a suspect was confessing to a crime voluntarily. When he came to himself, he instructed the police constable on duty to remand the suspect the cell pending proper investigation and arraignment.  Inspector Olopaa was determined to get to the root of the matter by personally investigating the alleged commission. He especially wanted to find out why a murder suspect would voluntarily confess to killing his own wife.  “Something must have gone wrong”, he reasoned within himself. At exactly  11:30pm