Mohan Kuthar
Daijiworld Media Network – Mangaluru
Mangaluru, Oct 27: Police took Samson Cutinho, who killed his sister Fiona Cutinho, to the place where he had dumped his sister’s body after killing her using a hammer.
It is also gathered that Samson is a drug addict.
The place where Samson dumped the body is half a kilometer away from the house where the family lived. The present house of the family is located opposite Infosys in Mudipu. Francis Cutinho, father of Samson and Fiona, shifted to the present house after selling his original property six months back.
Samson has revealed that he killed his sister Fiona who was sleeping at that time and then he dragged her body holding the leg for a distance of around half a kilomtere. Mother was away on duty as she worked for Infosys and father was also not at home when the murder took place.
Samson was debarred from his college recently for some indiscipline. After that he remained at home most of the time and smoked ganja. He was not talking to anyone. As he was using the mobile phone a lot, his father had taken it away from him two days back. But Fiona was allowed to use her mobile phone. Because of this it is suspected that he killed her when he was under the influence of ganja.
Samson’s girlfriend is a rape victim
It is gathered that Samson’s girlfriend is a rape victim. A person named Rajesh was arrested by Konaje police for rape on her in 2017. It is said that Samson was disturbed after that and became a ganja addict. He always remained alone and did not talk to anyone.
Investigation angles
The mobile phone records had revealed that Fiona was chatting with a boy one year older than her from Mangaladevi. After that the police subjected the boy into interrogation as he had sent her many messages even after she went missing. Police came to know subsequently that the boy was no ways connected to the crime.
Catholic Sabha Mudipu had complained to the police commissioner to speed up the search for Fiona.
Earlier Samson was spotted twice on Netravati Bridge. The police, who had spotted him there,had dropped him home.
MLC Ivan D’Souza and MLA U T Khader visited the house of Francis Cutinho and consoled the family.
Francis Cutinho revealed that his son Samson had accused that father himself had killed the daughter.