OAU Student Murder: Adedoyin, Two Others Sentenced To Death By Hanging
OSUN State Chief Judge, Justice Oyebola Ojo has found and sentenced to death by hanging the proprietor of Hilton Hotels, Rahmon Adedoyin,
Chief Adedoyin was found guilty of the murder of Timothy Adegoke, a Master’s student of the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Osun State.
Delivering judgment earlier today, Justice Ojo emphasised that the presented circumstantial evidence overwhelmingly pointed to Adedoyin as the perpetrator behind Adegoke’s tragic demise.
However, the four staff members who were charged alongside Adedoyin were discharged and acquitted of the charges levelled against them.
It will be recalled that Timothy Adegoke met a mysterious death at Hilton Hotels, Ile-Ife, in 2021.
Dr Adedoyin, along with six of his employees including Magdalene Chiefuna, Adeniyi Aderogba, Oluwole Lawrence, Oyetunde Kazeem, Adebayo Kunle, and Adedeji Adesola were charged with multiple offences, including conspiracy, murder, felony, indecent interference with a corpse, alteration and cancellation of receipts, and obstruction of justice.
The judge ordered the forfeiture of the hotel and the Hilux bus used to convey the deceased to the dumping ground.
Justice Ojo also ordered Adedoyin to pay the school fees of the two children of the deceased.
Adegoke was said to have travelled from Abuja to write an exam at a distance learning centre of OAU in Moro, Osun State, on 5th November 2021.
He had lodged in Adedoyin’s hotel.
The student was, however, declared missing two days later, only to be found dead.
The police would later arrest Adedoyin and the six suspects said to be staff members of Hilton Hotels and Resort, Ile-Ife where the deceased lodged.
In March 2022, Waheed Oluogun, a consultant pathologist at Osun State University Teaching Hospital, told the court that the Master’s student died of a severe haemorrhage secondary to severe traumatic injury.
“While exhuming the body, it was found to be completely wrapped in a blood-stained duvet without exposing any part of the body,” Oluogun had said.
“It was found in a supine position with two different ropes, one around the neck, the one around the ankles.
“There were maggots found around the left side of the head up to the entire left upper limb. The body was taken to the mortuary section of UNIOSUN Teaching Hospital, Osogbo.
“The body was identified by his brother, Adegoke Olugbade. At our teaching hospital, we planned for a post-mortem examination to know the cause of death. On the 22nd November 2021, seven pathologists came for the examination.”
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