Overview
- Benjamin Katabana, 27, has been charged with murder and appeared at Norwich Crown Court via videolink, where he was remanded in custody.
- Police were called to Somerleyton House at 5:22am on November 22 and a murder investigation began after Mr Okirie died from a single stab wound to the chest.
- Mr Okirie, a Nigerian national in his 30s known as Uche, was reported as a former postgraduate at the University of East Anglia’s School of International Development.
- Norfolk Police said the incident is believed to be isolated and posed no wider risk to the local community.
- A forensic cordon displaced residents from the mixed student and professional accommodation, and UEA contacted a handful of its students living there to offer support.