Stabbed teen died by drowning

The body of Okeiro, 15, who was sent by his mother, Abia Williams, to sell vegetables in front of the Bethel House of God Church in Freeport, Thursday, was discovered floating at the back of the church on Friday morning.

The autopsy, conducted by forensic pathologist Dr Valery Alexandrov, showed the schoolboy was stabbed 15 times on his face, neck and scalp.

The pathologist, in recreating the scene, found that Okeiro had to have been restrained by one or two attackers while another stabbed him.

Alexandrov also found that Okeiro’s wounds had caused extreme blood loss, which caused him to collapse from haemorrhagic shock after breaking free from his attackers.

He was subsequently thrown into the river behind the church where he drowned.