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A Nigerian politician, Dr Walton Liverpool, who jailed a 19-year-old girl, Miss Charlotte Delhi, through court action, for leaking their nude sex video and photos in Yenagoa has reportedly died.
Liverpool reportedly died early hours of today, Saturday, November 5, 2022.
He was a former Executive Secretary of the Universal Basic Education Board/Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Education in Bayelsa State.
Details of what led to his death are still sketchy as of press time, although a source said it might not be unconnected with a devastating heart attack.
However, inside family sources confirmed that the body of Liverpool who was also an In-law to the former governor of Bayelsa State, Senator Seriake Dickson, has been deposited at the Federal Medical Centre Morgue.
His mistress, Charlotte, who is currently serving a jail term at the Okaka Medium Correctional Center, was arrested by the DSS and charged with circulating their sex video sometime last year in an attempt to allegedly blackmail him.
She was also accused of blackmailing Liverpool, to extort the sum of N15 million from him.
The nude video of Liverpool was allegedly circulated on social media by the accused reportedly after his refusal to succumb to blackmail.
Charlotte’s charge at the Federal High Court, Yenagoa reads: “That you, Charlotte Delhi on the 14th day of September 2021 in Yenagoa, within the jurisdiction of this Honourable Court, for the purpose of extorting the sum of N15 million from Dr Walton Liverpool, intentionally posted a video showing the naked appearance of the said Dr Walton Liverpool on a WhatsApp group tagged “Off Liverpool” with an iPhone7 plus mobile phone and GSM. No 08084267342.”
According to the DSS, the defendant had allegedly recorded the video when she and Liverpool met at a hotel in Yenagoa and allegedly demanded the sum of N15 million.
Shortly after she pleaded not guilty, her counsel, Andrew Arthur, applied for her bail, having been in DSS custody for 13 days.
In arguing the bail application, Arthur told the court that the defendant had earlier been arraigned for criminal defamation and granted bail by a Bayelsa High Court but regretted that the DSS declined to release her on bail and chose to approach the Federal High Court.
The prosecution counsel, Mr Victor Uchendu, in opposing the bail application, said that he was just served the bail application in the courtroom and needed time to study it and respond to the issues raised therein.
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Justice Isa Hamma Adama Dashen remanded the defendant at the custody of the Nigerian Correctional Service, Yenagoa for further hearing on the bail application following the request of prosecution to study the application for possible grounds to oppose it./SHARE THIS