Two days after a 33-year-old Athira was found stabbed to death in her residence at Kadinamkulam in Thiruvananthapuram, police on Thursday held the suspect Johnson from Kurichi in Kottayam.
Chingavanam police, acting on information received from Kadinamkulam police, took Johnson into custody from a home at Kurichi.

He was brought to the station by noon. Soon, he started showing signs of uneasiness and told police that he had consumed poison. The police shifted him to the district hospital. Cops said they have not been able to collect any statement from him owing to his health condition. 
Kadinamkulam police said that a team had left for Kottayam. Johnson was employed as a home nurse. The police learned that an agency based in Kottayam had assigned him as a home nurse to a house at Kurichy. The police have been tailing him and understood that he boarded a train from Thiruvananthapuram to Alappuzha, and from there, he reached Kottayam on Thursday. The police got information that he was at the house to collect his luggage and was planning to flee when Chingavanam police arrested him.

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Johnson and Athira became friends on social media. According to police, their friendship turned sour, following which Johnson allegedly planned and murdered Athira at her home when her husband was away. Although police could identify the suspect, Johnson gave them the slip in Thiruvananthapuram and checked into a homestay in Kottayam.

Athira died of a deep stab wound on her neck. She hailed from Venjaramoodu. Johnson is a resident of Kollam.

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