Uncertainty still surrounds the case of Nigerian dancer Poco Lee (real name Iweh Pascal Odinaka) after streamer Habeeb Hamzat, known as Peller, told followers during a livestream that the entertainer had been freed from UK custody.
Peller’s claim, delivered in characteristically animated Pidgin English, credited the reported release to an alleged decision by the woman who brought the case against Poco Lee to walk away from the proceedings.
“Yes, guys, Poco Lee is out,” he told viewers, adding that the complainant had “run away from the case” and blessing her for it. He went further, asserting a direct causal link between her withdrawal and the dancer’s release from custody, saying a “UK lawyer” subsequently let Poco Lee go.
It’s worth recalling the scale of what Poco Lee was said to be facing. According to Snaresbrook Crown Court in London, where reporting restrictions were placed on the case to protect the complainant’s identity, he had been accused of attempted rape, two counts of rape, and two counts of assault by penetration.
The dancer had travelled to the UK in August for the “Davido and Friends” show at the Crystal Palace Bowl on August 14, and reports of his detention surfaced only days later.
He was remanded in custody, with the matter listed for plea and trial preparation, and a plea hearing had been scheduled for September.
Peller, notably, had already inserted himself into the story once before this, claiming in an earlier livestream that he had sought the intervention of a religious figure, Pastor Tobi, to help secure Poco Lee’s release.
What remains conspicuously absent from this latest development is any form of institutional confirmation. Neither Snaresbrook Crown Court nor UK prosecuting authorities have issued a statement corroborating Peller’s account, not on whether the complainant withdrew her allegations, nor on whether Poco Lee has, in fact, walked free.
In criminal cases of this nature in England and Wales, a complainant declining to continue cooperating does not automatically end a prosecution; the Crown Prosecution Service, not the alleged victim, ultimately decides whether charges proceed.
Reaction online has split along predictably skeptical lines. Some social media users have openly doubted Peller’s account, with one comment invoking a court date—”In a few days or hours we go know the real truth” as the real test of the claim.
Others have taken a harder line, arguing that if the allegations were false, the accuser herself should face consequences. Still others have urged caution altogether, insisting that a livestream is no substitute for an official court record.
For now, the story sits in a familiar limbo: a viral claim from a figure with a track record of inserting himself into the narrative, unconfirmed by anyone with actual authority over the case.
Until Snaresbrook Crown Court or UK prosecutors speak on the record, Poco Lee’s legal status free, still detained, or somewhere in between remains, strictly speaking, unverified.
WHAT YOU SHOULD KNOW
Poco Lee’s reported release from UK custody rests entirely on one unverified claim by streamer Peller, not on any statement from Snaresbrook Crown Court or UK prosecutors. Until an official source confirms it, treat the story as unconfirmed.
