James Turner, the 67-year-old Irish national based in Nigeria, has said he slept with no fewer than six other ladies. Turner is the man accused by his 31-year-old Nigerian girlfriend of deliberately infecting her with the Human Immunodeficiency Virus, HIV.
Turner also confessed to have sent his wife back to the Republic of Ireland, when his status was confirmed, in order not to infect her with the virus.
It was gathered, during interrogation that among the girls the suspect had slept with was his girlfriend’s friend. The concerned ladies, it was gathered, were all commercial sex workers.
However, unconfirmed reports said he had slept with more than six ladies.
His girlfriend, identified simply as Helen, reported Turner to the police last Friday, after the latter reneged on his promise to settle the former with N2.5 million.
Helen said that she stumbled on the anti-retroviral drugs her lover of eight years had been secretly taking, four months after his status was confirmed.
The Benue State-born lady disclosed that Turner’s status was revealed three years ago, when she went with him to the hospital for the treatment of an unknown ailment.
She said: “When we got to Liester Hospital, Ikeja, they ran some tests on him because he was sweating and also running temperature. The doctor gave him drugs for malaria.
“At that hospital, if one is sick and has such high temperature, they will run a HIV test on the person without his knowledge. After running the test on him, the doctor invited us to his office and asked if he could talk to him in my presence, he said no, that I should wait outside. The doctor thereafter, broke the news to him.
“When we got home, he was quiet. He did not tell me anything. I realised that he was taking a particular medication, which he hid from me.
“There was a time I even drove to the hospital to pick a brown envelop, which was sealed, for him. It was his medication, but I did not open it.
The image then disappeared before she could prompt the ushers who were praying nearby after the service.
The leader of the church reportedly announced the wonderful sighting to the congregation in church the following day.
Scores of politicians, musicians and radio personalities including Black Rasta have been attending the program for spiritual impartation.
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