Category: Pending

Pending cases not yet on the official list

Alice Anene

No PhotoName: Alice Anene.
Died: January 26, 2025.
Age at death: 74.
Cause of death: Burned.
Location: Amene Village, Abagana, Nigeria.
Disability: Wheelchair user; mobility impaired/disabled elder.

Details:
Alice was burned to death. Police found an alleged group of conspirators with her body in a wheelbarrow, and a casket in which they intended to bury her before investigations could be made.

Case Status:
Obinna Anene, arrested on suspicion of murder.
Ikenna Anene (Cousin), arrested on suspicion of murder.
Chinenye Ekwenugo, arrested.
Uzochukwu Okeke (Cousin), arrested on suspicion of murder.
Ifeanyi Igwe, at large and wanted for murder.
Fidel Anayo (Stepson), arrested on suspicion of murder.

Sources:
‘Crippled Woman’ in a Wheelchair Burnt to Death in Anambra, Police Arrest Suspects, Recover Casket
Police Arrest Four In Anambra For Setting Woman Ablaze In Wheelbarrow
Four arrested for burning 74-year-old Anambra woman
Anambra police arrests man over physically challenged woman’s murder

3-year-old girl

No PhotoName Unknown.
Died: December 4, 2021.
Age at death: 3.
Cause of death: Drowning.
Location: Townsville, Queensland, Canada.
Disability: Autism.

Details:
This toddler girl’s father, who was the only adult home to take care of her and her two-year-old brother, had been awake for 31 hours, taking and selling methamphetamine. He was sleeping it off when his three-year-old daughter opened the unlocked front door, left the house, and drowned in a storm drain. Prosecutors called his drug use “criminally negligent” and the little girl’s death “entirely preventable”.

Case Status:
Her father pleaded guilty to manslaughter and child endangerment.

Sources:
Father found guilty of non-verbal, autistic daughter’s manslaughter after drowning death