Police officers attached to the Homicide Department at Panti, Yaba, in Lagos State have discovered two decomposed corpses in an apartment in Lagos.
The decomposed corpses were found in a three-bedroom apartment at 18, Aina Road, Agiliti, Mile 12 area of the state last weekend.
The police officers, with a team of pathologists from the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital, Ikeja, made the shocking discovery following reports from the agent in charge of the house that neighbours had not seen the occupants of the apartment since 2010.
The decomposed corpses were later identified as those of a woman known as Emma Johnson, while the other corpse was that of her 27-year-old son, Papa Johnson. Five persons, including neighbours, have been arrested.
It was gathered that the decomposed corpse of the woman was found lying face up on a dusty sofa, with a cross in her left hand. She was easily identified as the hair on her head have not decomposed.