Mentally ill woman nearly lynched in Lagos.

A mentally-challenged woman has escaped being lynched by an angry mob in Lagos after she was allegedly caught with N100,000, two BlackBerry phones and an android phone. Two ATM cards were also allegedly found on her. Some youths trailed her into a compound and started beating her.

A resident said ''Around 10am, I saw a crowd around an unkempt woman. Some of the youths picked up sticks and were beating the woman. When I asked what was wrong, they said they found three phones and N100,000 with her. They claimed the woman was not mad, but was only pretending to be mad so that she could easily perpetrate evil acts.''

Some policemen who were alerted by the noise of the crowd gathered at the scene and rescued the woman from the mob.
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A policeman told PUNCH on the condition of anonymity, that all attempts to verify the allegations were fruitless. He said ''I have been asking the woman questions all day, but she has just been incoherent. She has even refused to tell us her name. At some point, she just started crying, so I let her sleep. I don’t even know if she is a mad woman.

Also, when she was arrested and we searched her, we did not find any money, phone or ATM cards on her. Nobody has come to write any statement here at the station.''

**So who do we believe?