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| Irish police search for Paiche Unyolo’s head |
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Our Correspondent, 02 August 2004
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In what must have been a grim experience for any parent, Chief Justice Unyolo attended the burial of the headless remains of his daughter Paiche Unyolo Onyemaechi at St Otteran’s Cemetery in Ireland last Friday.
The ceremony, covered widely by Irish media, also heard from Dr John Parkin, the priest presiding over the ceremony, that Paiche’s husband cannot be traced.
He appealed to the 150 people at the ceremony, most from the African Community, to contact him about the whereabouts of the Nigerian husband Chika Onyemaechi.
The police have since issued a press release to newspapers to confirm that one line of their inquiry will concentrate on Paiche’s alleged profession to explain how she came to meet her violent death.
A report in the Irish Independent newspaper on Saturday said police have information that Paiche worked as a prostitute. She was also known to work as a lap dancer in nightclubs in Dublin and the nearby town of Limerick and for a time did the same in London, England.
Lap dancing clubs are a permanent feature of nightlife in Ireland and Great Britain. Women dance on tables or twirl around poles while peeling off their clothes. At the end of the song they are dancing to they will have peeled off right down to their last item of underwear.
Customers, usually men saturated on alcohol, will reward such sexual antics by stashing wads of money into whatever clothing is still remaining on the dancer’s body.
Yesterday the police told the Irish Independent that they have also opened another line of investigation following suggestions that Paiche’s murder has the telltale marks of an African ritualistic killing.
The police believe that the head was probably taken by the killers to be kept as a trophy or to be used in a voodoo ceremony. This new development, they said, has prompted them to call in the expertise of Scotland Yard, the British detective agency who have vast experience in African voodoo murders.
According to the Irish Post, Paiche was discovered on 22 July by two women walking near a river. They saw human legs protruding from a bin bag. The body, with the head missing, was examined by State Pathologist Marie Cassidy who used fingerprints to positively identify the body as that of Paiche Unyolo Onyemaechi, who had been reported missing on 8 July by her husband.
Chief Justice Unyolo was joined at the burial ceremony by his son Leon, his daughter Lucy and the Malawi Honorary Consul to Ireland Father Padraig O’Malley.
The paper also reported that police are conducting extensive forensic investigation of the rented property in Waterford City where Paiche lived to see if they can discover more clues about her death and hopefully, the people responsible for the macabre murder.
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