The timely intervention of detectives from Ondo State Police Command reportedly saved a 25-year-old psychiatric patient from being set ablaze for allegedly attempting to kidnap some primary school pupils in Ondo town, yesterday.
Some youths in Oka area of the town were about roasting him alive, when policemen arrived the scene.
The suspect, identified as Peter Oyeyemi, was accused of lurking around the school when youths saw him and kept a tab on him.
He was alleged to have lured some pupils only to be challenged by the youths, who searched him.
During the search, items discovered in his bags include passport-sized photographs of different persons, picture of a teenage girl, a tecno handset, cash, female dresses and a copy of Bible and Quran.
The youths raised an alarm that he was a kidnapper and more youths mobilised to the scene. They stripped him naked and while some of the youths went for a tyre, others made for petrol.
He was reportedly beaten to pulp before those who went for used tyre and petrol returned.
Some elders in the area informed the police who raced to the scene and whisked him away.
His parents had been contacted and that they confirmed that he escaped from the psychiatric hospital in Akure, where he was receiving treatment.
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